Crime & Safety

Strange Police Stories: Unusual Assaults and Dynamite!

The week started off with a bang in Northeast Georgia.

Some strange recent occurences in our neck of the woods:

  • You never know what you might find during a renovation project. For a couple of residents here in Oconee County rummaging through an old shed, the discovery was . The Bomb Squad showed up to clear it out. Nothing went boom.
  • A man in Hoschton for a local dealer and was beatened and threatened with death in return. The victim's father told police his son was trying to secure the dealer's help in getting his girlfriend out of jail.
  • Police are still investigating a case in which a man in a drive-through line of the cashier who'd handed him his food. Four males in a red Dodge Intrepid ought to be sorry.


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