A Powder Mill Village resident who called police about 6 p.m. Friday evening to complain that a neighbor was banging on her wall found herself charged with disturbing the peace by the responding officer.
Officer Seth Florek reports that he was dispatched to the apartment complex at 126 Union Street and, when he arrived, he could hear loud music while he was still in his cruiser.
Florek went to the apartment where the music was playing and spoke with the resident who had called police about her neighbor banging on her wall.
He reports that when he asked the resident why she was playing her music so loudly in an apartment complex where there are hundreds of residents living close to each other she told him that she “knows her rights” and could play her music as loudly as she wanted.
Florek advised her that this is not the case and she is liable for charges of disturbing the peace. He reports that, before he left her to speak with her neighbor, the woman called him “little bacon”, an apparent attempt to insult him.
Florek reports that the woman’s neighbor said that she had been playing music loudly enough to shake his walls all day and said he finally started to bang on their mutual wall in protest.
When Florek asked why he didn’t go to her door to ask her to lower the volume the man said that he has done that in the past and said that his neighbor “gets crazy” when he complains.
Florek reports that the woman was charged with disturbing the peace.
