The mystery behind a “suspicious” incident reported to police on Wednesday has been solved.
At about 12:30 p.m. on May 6, police received a call from a witness who’d seen a woman allegedly jump from the passenger side of a moving vehicle while it travelled down East Columbia Street near Front Street. The witness alleged the driver of the car dragged the woman by her hair back to the car.
According to Sgt. Chad Johnston this was not the case. He wouldn’t, however, go into detail about what happened.
“In this situation, I can’t speak to what the actual occurrence was, but what I can tell you is we did make contact with them and everything has been resolved,” he told the Record.
Johnston added that often witnesses contact police thinking they saw something happen but in fact what they saw wasn’t actually what was happening.
“Things like that,” he said. “They happen so fast, and we get people that witness things and what they’re witnessing, as with a lot of things we go to, … doesn’t always turn out to be what actually happening.”
