Wednesday, November 21, 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 …
Both thefts took place in unincorporated Norcross.
A man told police that his mountain bike was stolen last month after he let someone ride his it at a Sonic drive-in in unincorporated Norcross. The incident started when the man arrived at the 1220 Tech Drive establishment on his bicycle around 2:38 p.m. on a Sunday, according to the Gwinnett Police report. While the man was ordering his food, another man approached him and asked if he could ride his bike. The owner gave him permission, so the man got on the bike and rode it around the fast food establishment while the owner finished giving his order. The bicycle rider rode it around the back of Sonic and was never seen again, the owner said. Police observed surveillance video of the incident confirming the story. For the rest of the story…
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported by local Patch sites.
Click on the links below for more on each story 1. Sweepstakes Fake In these economic times, who doesn’t dream of hearing, “You’ve won the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes?” A Stone Mountain-area woman heard those words, but there was a catch. She was told by a male phone-caller that a camera crew was on its way with the check, and all she needed to do to prepare for the big moment was to purchase $200 in prepaid cards to cover taxes and other costs. She obliged, and was called later by the man asking for more money. The camera crew never arrived. 2. Enough, Already More fake sweepstakes news: A man who recently moved to Snellville after being scammed out of $20,000 in New York because he supposedly won multiple sweepstakes told …
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Strange crime news powered by the police reporting from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.
Click on the links to get details on each story 1. No Job Rob In an act that probably will not end up on his resume, a man robbed a Norcross-area car wash after the owner told him there weren’t any job openings. 2. Pot Sniffing It was a “whiff of raw marijuana” that prompted Snellville Police officers to sniff out a pot-growing operation recently. The odor was so strong, according to the police report, that officers followed the pot scent a half-mile to a house where 21 pot plants were found, including some that were 6-feet tall. The street value was $25,000. 3. Trailer Park Pot Gwinnett County cops have pretty powerful weed-detection abilities, too. A police officer reportedly smelled raw pot while on patrol in a trailer park. Inside one…
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported on local Patch sites.
Click on the links below for more details 1. Police say a Duluth man driving his girlfriend's SUV walked into a Lilburn home, where a rifle case caught his eye. He looked suspicious, and caught the eye of a neighbor, who called police. Eventually located by police, he fled into nearby woods. But, what officers found in the back of the SUV susprised them even more: It was a baby. The baby, apparently, belonged to the man's girlfriend, and was unharmed. Guess he didn't want to give up his baby-sitting duties while being on the lam. 2. The “person down” DeKalb County police found on a recent weekday morning ended up being a half-dressed woman who was sleeping on the ground. The police report said the 46-year-old woman was wearing only a red T…
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported on local Patch sites.
Click on the links before for more details 1. Taking things into his own hands, a Stone Mountain pizza delivery man went after teens who had ordered pizza and wings but refused to pay, even after one of them brandished a gun. The four teens took off running and the delivery man gave chase, grabbing one of the suspects trying to climb over a fence. One of the teens showed the man a handgun and he backed off. Later he chased the group in his car, caught up to them and was told "Bro, you don't want this" while being shown the handgun at one of the suspect's waistline. With the help of the delivery man, DeKalb Police eventually caught up to the suspects. 2. Police found quite an eyeful when they arrived at an Athens-area apartment: a woman …
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported on local Patch sites.
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
Click on the links below for more details. 1. A suspected would-be robber intended to stick up a Johns Creek Panera while an employee was working alone early one morning. The suspect became enraged when the employee refused to let him in and screamed, “Open the f#@%ing door.” With that, the suspect punched the glass door, shattering it, then ran away. 2. A Lilburn homeowner told police he was so upset about his escalating water bills that he chose another route to fill his pool. He attached a green garden hose to a fire hydrant nearby and ran it back to the pool. He had two feet of water in the pool before police arrived. In case you don’t know, it’s against the law to do this. 3. Somebody tried to steal an ATM machine located inside a …
Sunday, September 2, 2012
A roundup of unusual cop stories from Northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more details 1. A Stone Mountain-area man was taken to the cleaners by a bogus dry-cleaning business earlier this month (sorry, we couldn’t resist). The man responded to a special of “11 pieces for only $18.95,” according to a police report. He dropped off the clothes and paid the money, but when he returned to pick up his clothes six days later the building was deserted. 2. Really? Stealing paint? Home improvement must be pretty expensive. A Lawrenceville man was arrested on felony shoplifting charges after he was caught trying to steal several five-gallon cans of paint from a Johns Creek Home Depot. Apparently, he tried to wheel the paint out of the store in one of those shopping wagons when he was stopped by…
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more details 1. When will stoners ever learn? Using air freshener to cover up the smell of weed never works. A Gwinnett County Police officer making a traffic stop on I-85 smelled overwhelming odors of marijuana and air freshener coming from a rental car driven by a Stone Mountain woman, with a South Carolina man in the passenger seat. The officer wrote in his report: “I noticed there were two clip-on air fresheners stuck inside the air vents. This stood out to me because this was an Enterprise rental car and the average motoring public does not add air fresheners to a rental car.” The officer later found a UPS box with a PlayStation 3 box inside. Inside that box were three pounds of pot. 2. When a man was …
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
Click on the links for more info on each story 1. It’s common for someone to blame the traffic for being late to work. But a Lawrenceville woman flipped that around to explain why she had side-swiped another vehicle in a Snellville-area intersection. The woman said she was sitting in a left-turn lane during a red light, then decided she wanted to go straight through the intersection. According to a police report, she punched it when the light turned green, struck the car and continued on her way. Police caught up later and heard this explanation — she was late for work. The woman was arrested and charged with several offenses, including hit-and-run, improper lane change and no proof of insurance. She ended up being really late for work. 2…
