Inside the Police Reports

Each week, Lilburn Patch takes a deeper look into recent crime reports from the Gwinnett and Lilburn police departments.

Car Thieves Strike Again: A 37-year-old Lawrenceville woman went down to the Gwinnet County Police Annex to report some items that had been stolen from a 2011 Nissan Maxima while it was parked in the Collins subdivision in Lilburn near Killian Hill and Stone Mountain Highway. The woman said an unknown suspect pried her car's left rear window open between April 19 and 21 and stole a $250 Nextar navigation system, an 8GB iPod Touch, CDs valued up to $800 and a Mac computer retailing for $1,271.73.

One Sign That Says You Need New Friends: Sometime during the evening of April 22 and the early hours the following day, a 20-year-old woman's car was vandalized while parked at her home. When she checked the car in the morning, she noticed the words "[Expletive] 4 $" spray-painted in red on her driver's door and "Serving G Country" painted on the hood. She told police that she suspects two people that she knows, a Hispanic female and a 22-year-old Hispanic male. 

Her reasoning for the suspicion? "They're just crazy like that," says the police report. She also found similar inscriptions on their Facebook pages, but according to the police report,  there ended up being no investigation of the incident.

Car Fights: A woman and her ex-husband were at Lucky 7 Billiards off Indian Trail-Lilburn Road when the woman's ex-boyfriend tried to start an altercation with the two. The two decided to leave the bar and walk back to the woman's vehicle, a 2003 Buick Rendezvous, and the ex-boyfriend followed, still arguing and now adding threats. The ex-boyfriend, a Norcross resident, got into his Sierra pickup and closed in about 5 feet away from the woman's car on the passenger side, close to where her ex-husband was standing.

The police report says the argument continued for five minutes, until the ex-boyfriend drove the truck forward slightly, then reversed quickly into the other vehicle's rear passenger's side and drove off. The collision missed the ex-husband by just a few inches, and there was damage done to the car, but the woman didn't want to call police. A friend attempted to drive them home in the vehicle but was only able to drive for half a mile because one of the tires was flat. They pulled the vehicle into a nearby parking lot, walked to the woman's sister's house on Indian Trail and called 911. Warrants were taken for the ex-boyfriend for a hit-and-run and aggravated assault with a motor vehicle.