November 10, 2010 Hospital prowler nabbed stealing drugs-cash www.privateofficer.com
COOKEVILLE TN Nov 10 2010 — A Walnut Avenue man was arrested late Friday night after he was found allegedly prowling the halls of the city hospital while intoxicated.
Shannon Dale Kelly, 28, is charged with public intoxication, theft, and simple possession of pills in the case, according to warrants on file.
Cookeville Police Officer Jamey McCurry said he was dispatched to the 5th floor of Cookeville Regional Medical Center just after midnight Friday to investigate a report of “a suspicious male.”
The officer said hospital security officers had found the man inside the 5th floor locker room.
“The security guard handed me a bag of pills,” the officer’s report says. “He stated that the male subject was shoving them in his pants when they found him.”
The suspicious man was identified as Shannon Dale Kelly, who allegedly told the officers that he “was planning on taking the pills,” the report says.
Kelly smelled of alcohol, but denied that he had been drinking. He admitted having taken two Xanax pills, the officer said.
“He stated that he was just looking around,” the report says.
McCurry arrested Kelly for public intoxication and upon searching him, found a roll of blue duct tape and two dry erase markers in his pockets. The tape and the markers belong to the hospital.
“He also had a wallet with $12 cash inside and multiple cards. He said the wallet was his.”
Warrants on file in the case say that Kelly was “prowling the hallways of the hospital” before being detained by a security guard.
“The defendant’s actions were an annoyance to the patients and the staff at the hospital,” one warrant says.
Kelly was booked into the Putnam jail at 1:38 a.m. Saturday and posted bond and was released later that day. He has a Dec. 10 court date.
Source:Herald Citizen
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