Weird Police News: Cleaning House, Blabbing on Facebook and More

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> They cleaned house: An Athens man told police that a man and a woman posing as a from his home — including computers, jewelry and TVs. Athens Clarke County Police say the man confronted the couple as they were loading up a pickup truck. They told him they were with the mortgage company and were at the house because it was going into foreclosure. The mortgage company told the man no such action was ordered.

> If the glove fits: A Lilburn man was robbed of cash, jewelry and other belongings after he was held up as the red dot of a laser-sighted firearm was pointed at his chest. The incident occurred outside a Dickens Road apartment complex. Two men are being sought, one of whom left a white gardening glove with red paint on it.

> He didn’t wish to remain silent: Gwinnett County Police responded to an aggravated domestic disturbance in Norcross and came away with drug-related charges on the man and woman involved. During the police interview, the man mentioned he had sold marijuana to the woman earlier in the day. A search warrant followed, and police found marijuana in various places in a storage area.

> Bad kitty? A Buford man, upset that a kitten may make his pit bull become unglued, used a tree limb to strike the feline. "I saw that little cat outside of my fence acting like he was going to antagonize my pit bull, so I grabbed a little stick and hit him with it," the man said, according to the police report. The man also said he has witnessed the cat teasing his dog, which was chained up in the backyard. The “little stick” was a tree limb more than three feet long and an inch and half thick. The kitten was taken to the vet and was expected to survive. The man was charged with animal cruelty.

> She knew it was stolen, but …  A woman who was driving a car reported stolen told Gwinnett Police this when asked if she knew it was stolen. "Yes, well no. I was told they were not going to report it,” she said, according to the police report. The woman, from Walhalla, S.C., told police the car had been rented by her boyfriend and, while she knew it had to be returned, she thought she had more time. After further questioning, she admitted the Walhalla Police Department had alerted her that the car had been reported stolen. "[The woman] kept saying that she needed to return the vehicle and that is why she was driving it,” the reporting officer wrote.

> Blabbing on Facebook: An Alpharetta man, accused of stealing more than $3,000 from a Walmart cash register, bragged about the suspected thefts via Facebook. He posted a photo of him with the money and the words, “I love my job.” He is charged with stealing the money out of the till over a five-day period. A Walmart associate, who is a Facebook "friend" with the suspect, alerted authorities of the post.

 > No wonder they’re not partners anymore: A dispute over paint led to an assault with a knife and a death threat on the owner of a Norcross business. The owner told police that his former business partner threaten to kill him and then tried to cut him with a pocket knife in the parking lot of the company. When the owner fought back and kicked the aggressor in the face, the ex-partner said he was going to hunt down the man’s family. The business owner told police the two men had fought before. He said the main reason for the attack was because he wouldn't let other man use his Sherwin Williams account.

> Now that’s inebriated: A Flowery Branch woman arrested for DUI by Gwinnett Police had a blood-alcohol count of .337. Wow. That’s four times the legal limit of .08. Police found her sitting in her car on the side of the road with two flat tires (both were off the rims), unable to stand or walk, and having “no clue as to what was going on," the officer wrote in the report. Her blood-alcohol was so high, she was taken to the hospital for observation.

> Cardboard riches? The Johns Creek Police Department was alerted to the theft of four bales of cardboard from outside a local Hobby Lobby. The cardboard was worth $464!

> Now that’s inebriated: A Flowery Branch woman arrested for DUI by Gwinnett Police had a blood-alcohol count of .337. Wow. That’s four times the legal limit of .08. Police found her sitting in her car on the side of the road with two flat tires (both were off the rims), unable to stand or walk, and having “no clue as to what was going on," the officer wrote in the report. Her blood-alcohol was so high, she was taken to the hospital for observation.