Oakdale Police Blotter: Windshield Shattered by Flying Object

A flying object shattered a man’s windshield as he traveled east in the 6100 block of Stillwater Boulevard just after midnight March 12, according to an Oakdale Police Department report.

The man said the object came from an unknown vehicle that passed him traveling in the opposite direction, the report says. He thought the object came out of the rear driver’s side window, according to the report.

The damage estimate was $200, the report says.

The following incidents were also reported to Oakdale police March 11-12:

March 11:

• Police saw a man staggering in the middle of the road in the 700 block of Gershwin Avenue whose breath had a strong odor of alcohol. A preliminary breath test showed he had a .157 blood alcohol content. There was no one at his home to care for him, and he couldn’t care for himself, so he was taken to the Ramsey County Detox Center. He was cited for minor consumption.
• An Oakdale man reported that his live-in ex-girlfriend threw a hammer at his back causing swelling and redness. She left their home when he called 911. Police attempted to locate the woman.

March 12:

• An Oakdale resident reported that between March 5 and 9 someone made four purchase totaling $59 in Singapore using their debit card number. They cancelled the card.
• Two women filled up laundry baskets with merchandise and ran out of the store. The laundry baskets were worth $18, and the caller didn’t know what other items were stolen.
• A resident in the 6200 block of 12th Street heard someone trying to open her apartment door with a key. When she looked through her peephole, she saw a man wearing a gray hood and black mask. She told the man not to come in, and he ran off. Police were unable to locate the man. The woman was advised to chain her door and call if he returned.
• Police responded to a trespassing complaint and found two people in the garage of a foreclosed home in the 6200 block of Upper 46th Street. One of the suspects had a glass pipe with white residue that tested positive for methamphetamine and the other one had an Oxycodone pill. One was booked into the Washington County Jail and the other was cited for trespassing and released.

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.