Only one arrest for shoplifting Thursday. Not much else going on. 

A juvenile left a local school at about 12:30 in the afternoon, telling staff he was going to jump in front of a car. He was taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation voluntarily. 

There were a few instances of larceny reports and a few arrests based on warrants, but as Lt. John Catone explained to me last week when I asked about them, they are often bench warrants issued by judges. 

He said bench warrants mean that a judge orders police to bring someone before him/her. Often, Catone said, the people are let go after court and it doesn’t actually constitute an arrest. 

Furthermore, he said if someone is arrested for the first time on a warrant, they report it to us as a new arrest. 

Thursday it looks like there were four or five, but none were reported as arrests in the blotter.

Here it is:
Jan. 4, 2013 blotter