Man won’t report crime to York police officer he doesn’t know

A man told a York police officer someone pointed a gun at him and threatened him, but said he didn’t want to make a police report because he didn’t know who the officer he was talking to was.

The officer was called to a home on Travora Circle on March 6 after a 39-year-old man began yelling and cursing at the homeowner in a dispute over borrowing a clothes dryer. The homeowner called police when the man reportedly threatened to come back and “burn his trailer down.”

The officer got the man’s phone number from the owner of the dryer and called him from the station. The man said during the argument that the homeowner had pulled a knife on him, while another man he identified as “Jo Jo” pointed a gun at him.

When asked why he hadn’t called police if he had been threatened, the man said he wanted to report the incident to his father, who he said was a sheriff’s deputy. The officer told him he would have to report the incident to the York Police Department since it happened inside the city, but the man said he “would not speak to an officer he did not know.”

“He asked me several officers’ names and when they would be working,” the officer wrote in the incident report. The man then said he would come to file a report on the man with a gun “Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.”

The man was told to get a police escort if he returned to the home to get the dryer.

This story was originally published March 15, 2015 at 5:14 PM with the headline "Man won’t report crime to York police officer he doesn’t know."