Regional Roundup: Residents Find Man Asleep in Their Home, Employees Fired for Charity Scam, and 4th Oldest Person in World Dies

-- Dacula Patch

A Dacula man was recently jailed after entering a Winder couple's home and settling in for a nap.

On March 25, 2012, an officer with the responded to a Lacey Lane home about 7:45 a.m. Inside the residence, the officer found a white male in pajama bottoms asleep in a chair and covered with what appeared to be a jacket. 

According to an incident report, the man appeared disoriented and under the influence of some type of drug. He was unable to tell the officer where he was or how he had gotten inside the house, saying the only thing he could remember was waking up outside and being very cold.

"I asked (the subject) if he knew any of the homeowners and he stated he did," the officer wrote in the report. "He also pointed to two other police officers who were with me at the scene and stated he knew them also."

The 20-year-old was charged with entry upon property.

– Alpharetta Patch

Eleven Verizon employees were fired after allegedly admitting they registered as having completed 50 hours of charity work they never performed. The Verizon Foundation offers a $750 matching contribution for employees who volunteer time to charity.

In this case, the 11 employees say they agreed to enter the time on behalf of a coworker's registered charity even though they didn't perform any volunteer hours, according to the March 26 incident report. Their coworker helped those unfamiliar with the program, even entering the hours herself on their work computers.

Verizon never issued the $9,000 check to her charity that these hours would have generated if they were legitimate.

-- Athens Patch

Athens, and the world, have lost one of the its oldest residents with the death Monday of Leila Denmark. At 114, she was the 4th oldest person in the world.

She had been getting round-the-clock medical care for many weeks. She moved to Athens from Alpharetta a few years ago and lived on Morton Avenue with her daughter and only child, Mary Denmark Hutcherson. 

Dr. Denmark was graduated in 1926 from the Medical College of Georgia, the third woman to do so, according to a story in the Athens Banner Herald. She moved to Atlanta and was the first resident at Egleston Children's Hospital.

The funeral is Thursday at 1pm at First United Methodist Church. Burial is Friday at 11am in Bulloch County, where she was born.

Correction: Dr. Denmark's age at death was mistakenly left out of the original story. It has been added.