Crime & Safety
Rafters Staff Has Different Version of Night Fudge-Shop Window Shattered
The man police cited was a former, not current bouncer—and he didn't punch the person he suspected of having vandalized Barbara Ann's Fudge Shop, according to the bar's manager.
Events on the night someone smashed the storefront glass at Barbara Ann's Fudge Shoppe transpired differently than police reported, according to the manager of Rafters Food and Spirits, the bar upstairs from the fudge shop in downtown Stillwater.
Dawn Smith said in an interview after a Stillwater Patch post about the incident that the man police ticketed at the scene is a former but not current bouncer at the bar.
He had chased down and apprehended another man who was seen running away from the vandalized store—but did not throw any punches, Smith said.
An officer cuffed, cited and released the former bouncer, who police said had hit the other man with a closed fist.
"Nobody got punched," Smith said. "He was restraining him."
According to Smith's account:
It was toward the end of the night, at about bar-close time, when people at Rafters heard glass shatter. Everyone went downstairs. Smith and a security staffperson called police. The former bouncer followed the fleeing man, who had hidden himself by the Freight House Restaurant, and held him. A second man was trying to get him loose. Police arrived and cited the former bouncer. The two males who people at the scene suspected had broken the storefront glass—and who Smith said she didn't recognize—got away.
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