Overheard on Police Scanner

Braintree Scanner Tales: Alleged road rage leads to arrest, Shoplifting arrest ...
Boston.com
Police said that witnesses pointed out the suspect to police, and said he was armed with a knife. No knife was recovered, but police believe both men were armed with blunt weapons. The men were locked in an argument when police arrived.


Disorderly conduct, welfare fraud, assault and much more
Steuben Courier
The male subject was issued tickets for unauthorized police radio frequency receiving device and failure to obey a traffic control device. Allegedly the male subject had in his motor vehicle a scannercapable of receiving police radio frequencies.


Fire destroys Bay City apartment building Saturday, displaces two families
The Bay City Times - MLive.com
Neighbor Roxanne Davis, a food service manager at the Bay County Jail, witnessed the fire and listened to the fire department's radio chatter on her scanner. “I kept running back and forth to the front of the house (and to the scanner),” Davis said.