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Strange Police

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Meth Falls From Jacket as Police Interview Man and Other Strange Police Stories

Police officers around North Georgia have had some odd encounters lately.

> Not my jacket, so not my meth: A Buford man, who was being questioned after he crashed his car into the side of a business, showed police more than his proof of insurance. As he pulled his insurance card out of a jacket pocket, a plastic bag “containing a white crystal substance hit the pavement between his feet," the officer noted in the report. Since the jacket wasn’t his, he said had no idea there were drugs in the pocket. The substance field-tested positive for methamphetamine, and the man landed in jail. > Finding trash at the dumpster: A Stone Mountain-area man taking out the trash at his apartment complex was robbed of $1,400 at the dumpster by two men who threatened him with a gun. The man intended to use the money to pay his …

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Fending Off Burglar with Golf Club, Horse Death Threat Made and Other Strange Police Stories

Here's what police officers around northeast Georgia were up against recently.

 > Smells like a lie: After a recent traffic accident, a Winder man told police that the odor emanating from him wasn’t alcohol — it was hand sanitizer, he said. The man then blew a .139 on his breath test. So, does that mean he was drunk on Purell? > He got all of that one: A University of Georgia student awaken by an intruder grabbed a 7-iron golf club from his closet and teed off on the suspect’s back. The intruder got away, but the shaft of the golf club was ruined. > Horse death threat: A Winder woman said her neighbor threatened to kill her horses, while the neighbor accused the woman of shooting his dog.  > Kicked by a cow: A Barrow County Sheriff's Office deputy was told by a resident that a child was kicked in the face by a cow. …

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