Friday, July 6, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
It wasn't Tyson vs. Holyfield II, the 1997 boxing match in which Mike Tyson bit off a chunck of Evander Holyfield's ear. But Norcross Police did respond to a recent case involving a fight and a human bite. According to the police report, an argument at a party escalated into a brawl, and while the host tried to step in, someone bit his left thumb so severely that stitches were needed to close the wound. The man wasn't sure who had bitten him. Headless goats and chickens were found by Athens Clarke County Police recently on a pathway between an elementary school and apartment complex in what can only be described as horrifyingly weird. After residents complained, the responding officer found the decapitated bodies of three goats, one black …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
A Lilburn man going through some tough financial times believed the tow-truck operator when he said he was repossessing the Isuzu Rodeo from his driveway on Bruce Way. According to the incident report, the man told Gwinnett County Police he was in bankruptcy and believed it when the tow-truck driver took the car on June 16. But on June 19, the man's lawyer called the finance company and found that it was not repossessed. Talk about kicking a man when he's down. The Isuzu was then listed as stolen. A Norcross man got more than he bargained for when he rode his bicycle to the gas station to get a beer. When he left the store a man came up from behind and challenged him to a fight. The victim tried to walk away but the man stabbed him in the …
Friday, June 22, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
With a sleight-of-hand and some smooth talking, two women with Eastern European accents made off with $841 in cash from the Hamilton Mill Walmart near Dacula. While checking out, one woman twice took money out of till, then gave some of it back to the clerk, saying the bills were “very pretty and she wanted to look at them because money was boring looking where she came from.” The clerk didn’t suspect a thing. In Winder, a resident told a deputy with the Barrow County Sheriff's Office that she was attacked by three females after she and one of the females were “talking smack” on Facebook. The three females allegedly punched her, knocked her to the ground and kicked her in the head. The alleged attackers said the complainant had been …
Richard Ferris
3:56 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
God Bless those officers! more ›