Sunday, February 17, 2013
Here's what police officers around North Georgia were up against recently.
> Strike 1 - You're Out: The asset protection specialist at the Lithonia Target store told DeKalb police that a 16-year-old girl suspected of putting cell phones in her purse without paying for them got into a scuffle with the store's security when she was stopped. During the fight, the suspect allegedly struck a loss prevention officer, according to the incident report. She and her sibling were released to their grandmother. Another person in her group took off with the cell phone-filled purse, the report states. > Next time, use the front door: A Loganville woman reportedly fired warning gunshots into the air after a man mistakenly knocked on her back door. She told police she became concerned after hearing the knock and then the …
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Here's what police officers around Northeast Georgia were up against recently.
Click on the links below for more information- A raw deal: A Norcross man told police that his iPhone was stolen while he was dealing a hand of poker at Stars and Strikes in Dacula. When he looked away from the table, he saw the phone was gone. But he’s pretty sure he knows who swiped it. Someone tried to sell the phone to one of the man’s friends, saying he found it at Stars and Stripes. Woman bites man: A Tucker-area woman suspected of injecting the drug oxycodone argued with her husband while he drove, so she bit him on the arm. When he jerked his arm away, the force yanked out one of her teeth. She was found with syringes and hypodermic needles, and told police she was an addict. Littering, the gateway crime: A Gwinnett County Police …
Monday, January 14, 2013
Here's what police officers around Northeast Georgia were up against recently.
Click on the links below for more information. 1. Smells like a lie: After a recent traffic accident, a Winder man told police that the odor emanating from him wasn’t alcohol — it was hand sanitizer, he said. The man then blew a .139 on his breath test. So, does that mean he was drunk on Purell? Related Content: 2. He got all of that one: A University of Georgia student awakened by an intruder grabbed a 7-iron golf club from his closet and teed off on the suspect’s back. The intruder got away, but the shaft of the golf club was ruined. 3. Horse death threat: A Winder woman said her neighbor threatened to kill her horses, while the neighbor accused the woman of shooting his dog. 4. Kicked by a cow: A Barrow County Sheriff's Office deputy …
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Here's what police officers around Northeast Georgia were up against recently.
Eating the Evidence: A man pulled over for suspicion of DUI by a Loganville Police Department officer was seen chewing on a green leafy substance. Wonder what that was? The suspect refused to open his mouth and continually turned away from the officer's eyes, but he still got pinched for drug possession. The officer also found a bundle of white pills hidden in the man’s underwear. Nicotine Fits: They say cigarettes are like money in jail, which is exactly where three people found themselves after a dispute over some missing smokes. A Winder man didn’t have proof that a Dacula man he knew had taken some of his cigarettes, so he did what he thought was logical — he took the man’s guitar and put it in his car just to make a point. To …
Sunday, December 23, 2012
People's holidays are getting spoiled all over Northeast Georgia.
Who takes a holiday decoration right from a neighborhood's welcome sign? Who breaks into a church and steals all the stuff you need to make and spread music? Who slithers into a gym locker room and makes off with people's wallets and iPhones while they're exercising? Who busts into a house, ransacks it, and runs out with a shotgun? Who leers around a home with bad intentions, but gets noticed by an alert occupant? Who takes stuff without asking - and then brings it back without being asked? And, who, in the end, releases his inhibitions and runs into the streets to celebrate with the masses? The answer to all is the Grinch. It's a magical time of year...
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Weird Police News: Our top 10 strange police stories from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.
1. Can you sink much lower than this? A seven-year-old Athens boy carrying $310 to pay the rent had the money stolen on his way to the leasing office. The boy's mother gave him the money to take to the office, but as he was en route, he was stopped by a man who was playing basketball nearby. The suspect took the money, pushed the boy to the ground and fled. The boy was not injured. 2. Is this love? A Norcross woman bailed out her boyfriend from the Gwinnett County Jail with the stipulation that he not contact her again, since he had been charged with aggravated assault and battery against her. Wait, huh? She bailed him out because she felt sorry for him. When she received a text saying, “Can you get me a Mountain Dew and a bologna sandwich…
Friday, November 23, 2012
This holiday, let's all thank our law enforcement officers for dealing with this stuff.
It's holiday season, but that doesn't slow down unusual criminal behavior. Snatching, shouting and shooting continue. A man asked another man if he could borrow his bike at a Sonic drive-in in unincorporated Norcross. The bike owner said yes, and now there's a new bike owner. A television has a new owner after it was swiped from a church in Bogart. Somebody forced a door open at Bogart Christian Church and made off with a flat-screen TV. Another man in Norcross succeeded in a snatching, but he didn't get the bag he wanted. When he demanded a woman's purse, she gave him her lunchbox instead. So there is such a thing as a free lunch. An Athens employee found something he didn't like in his lunch - a trace of cleaning agent in his water …
