BPD Blotter

A man who had been arrested and was in the backseat of a Bloomington police car Sunday faces additional charges after he threatened Officer Joseph Crider with a gun from the backseat of the car, police said.\nPolice responded to a report of a verbal fight in the parking lot of Legend's Bar and Grill, 3000 S. Old Ind. 37 Sunday, according to police reports. Crider initially arrested a man in the parking lot for public intoxication, police said.\nAfter the patrol car left the parking lot, the man told the officer driving that he had a .357 Magnum pointed at his head and was going to get him, police said. Crider turned on his lights and sirens and pulled over at Grimes Lane and Walnut Street, police said. \nA second search produced the handgun in his right, front hip pocket, police said. The officer confiscated it and removed eight rounds from the weapon, police said.\nThe man had a handgun permit that expired in July, police said. A small bag of marijuana was also found later, according to police said.\nThe man was charged with possession of marijuana, public intoxication, possession of a firearm without a valid permit and intimidation of a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon, police said.\nPatrick Scott Vestal, 34, of the 300 block of Gordon Pike was arrested in the incident and later released from the Monroe County Correctional Center on $2,500 bail, the jail said.\nA woman living on the 100 block of South Pete Ellis Drive reported that her new roommate had attacked her and threatened to kill her Sunday evening, police said.\nShe told police her roommate had been drinking and taking pills before he straddled her and pinned her to the couch, according to police reports. He then threatened to cut off her right breast with a small knife, saying that she had not done anything all day and that he felt she owed him something, police said.\nShe told police he also blocked the door and locked it to prevent her escape, police said.\nHe eventually fell asleep, and she left the apartment, police said.\nPolice arrested William Cline, 43, of the 100 block of S. Pete Ellis Drive, later at his apartment. He was charged with confinement and intimidation. He is being held at the Monroe County Correctional Center in lieu $10,500 bail.\nMore than $4,000 in electronic equipment was taken from an apartment at East 14th Street between 3:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Saturday, police said.\nThe occupants awoke to find their electronic equipment missing, according to police reports. Items include a DVD player, a television, VCR, Nintendo 64, CD player, receiver, two sets of speakers, a portable phone, 10 DVDs, 10 Nintendo games and 70 CDs, police said.\nThe apartment's sliding door was forced open, police said. \nPolice have no suspects or witnesses in the case. If you have any information regarding the case, contact the Bloomington Police Department at 339-4477.