Dispatch Desk

10:30 a.m. -- Responding officers learned that employees at a business on US 62 had accidently tripped the burglar alarm.

3:02 p.m. -- An officer responded to a problem with a student at the middle school. The parent also helped out.

6:17 p.m. -- A domestic dispute solved itself when the female left to spend the night in a motel.

January 10

6:37 p.m. -- A wife reported that her husband had not come home from his doctor's appointment. The officer did not see the husband's vehicle at the clinic, so he continued to search the area. ESPD notified the sheriff, first responders and the fire department. After a while, they found the husband at the hospital.

January 11

10 a.m. -- An officer towed a vehicle that had been red-tagged for expired tags since Monday.

12:15 p.m. -- An officer assisted a motorist whose vehicle had died on US 62.

January 12

7:13 a.m. -- There was a vehicle vs. mailbox accident on Hwy. 23 S. The scene was not in the city limits, but an officer responded until EMS and a sheriff's deputy arrived.

9:28 p.m. -- A husband currently in Mississippi called to ask if ESPD would check on his wife since he had not heard from her. An officer responded, but the husband called back to say the wife finally had called him.

January 14

5:41 a.m. -- An annoyed caller told ESPD that a male on a street corner near downtown was either hurt or intoxicated and was making a lot of noise. Turns out he was intoxicated and then he became arrested.

January 15

12:22 a.m. -- Someone leaving a local establishment reported that a vehicle had backed into his vehicle. He wanted ESPD to know he suspected the driver was drunk. An officer was on alert watching for the vehicle, but never encountered it.

2:04 p.m. -- An alert citizen noticed a vehicle being driven very recklessly heading east from Eureka Springs toward Berryville. Officers did not encounter the vehicle.

2:18 p.m. -- An employee of a local business reported that an elderly woman had been dropped off there by her daughter at least a half hour earlier, and the daughter had yet to return. An officer responded, but the daughter eventually returned to retrieve her mother.

January 16

12:41 a.m. -- Officers responded to an alarm at a residence signalling an entry. They checked the building but everything was okay. The resident, not home at the time, was grateful for their response.