Regional Roundup: Worker Gets Stabbed on the Job, Interview With Burglary Victim, and Big Brother Is Watching in Duluth

-- Barrow Patch

An employee with in Winder was taken to on Feb. 4, 2012, after a co-worker stabbed him, according to a Winder Police Department report.

According to the incident report, the injured employee said he had been joking around with three other co-workers when one grabbed a knife and stabbed him.

Another co-worker transported the victim to the hospital, where a Winder police officer observed a 1- to 2-inch wide stab wound on the victim’s side and three holes in the victim’s shirt where his co-worker, 18-year-old Robert James Cooper of Pendergrass, appeared to have attempted to cut him three times.

One of the employees who witnessed the incident said the victim playfully pushed his co-workers before he was stabbed.

Cooper turned himself in at the Winder Police Department the following day. He was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

-- Loganville-Grayson Patch

When Barbara Richardson arrived at her Gwinnett County home at about 6 p.m. Monday, she immediately knew something wasn't right. Once she got inside, she saw the pantry door was open and she knew it hadn’t been like that when she left in the morning. She peeped around the corner into her living room and her fears were confirmed.

“The first thing I saw was the flat screen was gone from the wall in the living room,” she said. “They took all the TVs and remotes, lots of jewelry, my daughter’s radio that she got for Christmas, my laptop, webcam – they even took my son’s ADHD medicine.”

Richardson had been the victim of a daylight burglary. She said the burglars appeared to know what was valuable and what wasn’t, taking a valuable sculpture and her wedding ring along with other technology products. Richardson said she wanted to warn people in the neighborhood to be aware that this had happened. She lives in the Firethorn North subdivision off Rosebud and Temple Johnson Road in Loganville.

with Richardson.

Gwinnett Police had come out and gone through everything and walked through the home with Richardson. She filed an insurance claim, but wanted to warn everybody to be extra vigilant.

– Duluth Patch

Don’t even think about doing anything bad in Duluth. The city's Iron Sky system just went live. Eleven high-definition pan-tilt-zoom surveillance cameras along Buford Highway, Downtown Duluth and Bunten Road Park will give Duluth police officers extra eyes to protect residents and catch criminals.

Cameras will also monitor the Duluth Town Green and Public Works Department.

The Iron Sky system records footage that police can access from computers located at Duluth Police Department headquarters and laptops in patrol cars. Duluth’s system also incorporates computer-aided dispatch (CAD) data that maps patrol cars, crime and traffic incidents and camera footage on one easy-to-use interface.