Crime & Safety

Top 2013 Police Stories in Media Patch

Check out Media Patch's Top 10 police and fire stories from 2013.

It was an odd theft of toothbrushes that was the most read police story in 2013. A woman stole $16,000 in electric toothbrushes and many read and couldn't resist commenting on this story. A missing woman who was later found dead by suicide, a fatal car crash on Route 252 and the guilty plea of the former Springton Lake Middle School principal were also widely read police stories in 2013. 

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