Oakdale Police Blotter: Car Hit Light Pole, Drove Off

A driver hit an Oakdale light pole Wednesday night, and then drove off, according to an Oakdale Police Department report.

A witness saw a vehicle collide with a traffic light at Upper 48^th Street and Glenbrook Avenue around 9:53 p.m. and then drive off, the report says.

The streetlight was tilted and the light cover fell off and broke. Police did not find the vehicle that hit the pole, according to the report.

 The following incidents were also reported to Oakdale police June 22-23:

June 22:

• Around 8:45 a.m. a resident in the 6100 block of 17^th Street reported that his unlocked vehicle had been stolen from his driveway. The vehicle starts without a key.  Less than one hour later, the resident reported that the vehicle was at his home, and that $300 worth of damage had been done to the steering column.
• A resident in the 2600 block of Holly Avenue reported that someone caused $400 damage to the siding on his home.
• An Oakdale woman reported that she accidentally left her check card at the Holiday Gas station at 33^rd Street and Hadley Avenue and the card was taken and used to fraudulently charge more than $300 worth of goods.
• At about 5:17 p.m. a vehicle exiting northbound Interstate 694 at 10^th Street ran a red light and hit another car, which left the roadway and went down an embankment. No one was injured, and the driver was cited.
• A resident in the 6000 block of 52^nd Street reported that a man came to her apartment soliciting money for a charity to “keep kids off the streets,” but had no credentials. He kept trying to look in her apartment and asked if she lived there alone.

June 23:

• A 46-year-old Maplewood woman was arrested for fourth-degree driving while intoxicated in the 2000 block of Geneva Avenue around 12:50 a.m.
• A 19-year-old Oakdale woman reported that her boyfriend was assaulted in the 3100 block of Granada Avenue and was at St. John’s Hospital with injuries to the face. The woman did not witness the incident, and her boyfriend did not remember it. Police are investigating the incident.
• An $80 iPod was stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked in the 4000 block of Geneva Avenue between 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, and 7:23 a.m. the next morning.
• The driver’s side window of a vehicle parked in the 3500 block of Grenadier Trail was smashed out between 10 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, and 7:50 a.m. the next morning, causing $150 damage. Nothing was stolen, but he vehicle’s contents were strewn in the area.
• A 28-year-old New Ulm man told police friends abandoned him at the Mall of America and that he walked through the night to the Oakdale Police department, where he arrived at 9:15 a.m. He asked for assistance with shelter and police drove him to the LivINN Suites.
• A plastic tool chest mounted in the bed of a pickup truck worth $300 was stolen overnight between June 22 and June 23 from a truck parked in a driveway in the 1600 block of Goodview Avenue.
• Speakers worth $646 were stolen from a vehicle parked in the 4000 block of Geneva Avenue between 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, and 7 a.m. the next morning.
• A 48-year-old St. Paul man was seen shoplifting $109 worth of items from Homegoods.
• A woman reported that her $200 cell phone was stolen somewhere in Oakdale on June 22 and that her other $200 cell phone was stolen or lost sometime in the afternoon on June 23.
• Someone stole the front license plate off of a truck parked in the 1200 block of Hallmark Court between 5:30 and 6:45 p.m. while the truck’s owner was at the parade.

The above items are taken from the . In all incidents where an arrest occurred, a charge is merely an accusation, and not evidence of guilt. The arrested person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Incidents are listed in the order in which they were reported, not necessarily the order in which they occurred.