Police Beat (10/18/13)

Staff Scrap-happy truck driver found with bikes, kegs At 9:15 a.m. Saturday, an OPD officer observed a red pickup truck driving around the north side of Oxford. The officer said the driver appeared to be picking up scrap metal. The same officer saw the same truck traveling east on High Street., 15 minutes later. The officer counted three bicycles and saw a heap of scrap metal in the truck bed, according to OPD. The truck committed a traffic violation, and the officer executed a vehicle stop, OPD said. The officer said he believed the three bikes were not good condition and that they weren't fit for scrap. When asked from where he had acquired the bikes, the driver said he took them from "the