Homeless presence prompts concern near Brooklyn cemetery barn, Brooklyn IA
Deputies responded near a Brooklyn cemetery barn after signs indicated a homeless person might be staying there, prompting concern over trespassing and safety.
Audio|Source: Poweshiek County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Three from county suspicious person.
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Go ahead.
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It's going to be on East Green Street in Brooklyn.
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It's going to be by the cemetery on Boundary Street, there is a little barn that goes off to...
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Goes off to the side of the cemetery.
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My R-P believes that the homeless individual that we have been dealing with in Brooklyn has been staying there because they found a bunch of backpacks.
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Food,
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clothes, just stuff that does not belong to them.
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And then he also saw a pair of footprints today leading to the barn, but did not see a pair of footprints leading the barn.
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He just wants a deputy to go check it out, make sure everything is tend to, and to make sure that that individual is not there.
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Tabith, I'll be in or out from Grinnell.
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Ten for. Ten for.
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Caught you three.
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I can't read the emails while I'm driving, but just the one that 79 put out.
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Three from four, that would be the one.
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I never made it over there to check it.
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Copy. I can't remember.
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Do they want charges on this or they just want to kick out of there?
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They did not advise if they wanted charges or not.
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He did say that he has a no trespassing sign on that barn.
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So I believe as of right now he may just want him to kick out.
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I can definitely call him back and ask them.
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Yeah, go ahead and ask.
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It's going to either solve a problem or make one worse.
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Location mentioned:
Boundary St, Brooklyn, IA 52211
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