Saturday, October 13, 2012
Strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported on local Patch sites.
A Dacula-area man was charged with simple battery after grabbing a teenager by the neck during a confrontation over a parking spot. He told police he saw two young men get out of a car parked in a spot designated for “drive-thru” customers at the Hamilton Mill Road McDonald’s. So he confronted them. It escalated into an argument. The man, who was seen grabbing and shaking the teen, “said [the juvenile] was very disrespectful so he told him he would ‘break his finger and shove it up his [exp],” the officer wrote in the report. There’s got to be a better way to get your roommate to do house chores than how a couple of Johns Creek teens played it out recently. When police responded to a report of a fight at an apartment complex, they found …
Saturday, August 4, 2012
A collection of some of the odd police stories from this past week in Northeast Georgia.
Two rescued baby pigs were reportedly taken from the backyard of an Athens home, but by whom? Local animal control and code enforcement officials said it wasn’t them, but apparently there was a caller who complained and said if the animals weren’t removed, the complainant would remove them. The case of the missing leg has been solved. We wrote in last week’s Weird Police News about a child-sized prosthetic found along side a road in Watkinsville that had police wondering what to do to find the owner. Thursday, the mother of the 6-year-old who wears the prosthesis picked it up at the police station. Apparently, the leg — a right leg painted black and adorned with planets and stars — may have fallen off the roof while the car was moving. …
Saturday, July 28, 2012
A collection of some of the odd police stories from this past week in Northeast Georgia.
Thinking (perhaps) that a carrying case contained a computer, a thief who broke into a car in the Dacula area got a whole lot more. The case contained around $200,000 in spinal implants. The thief also grabbed $750 in cash. Police say revenge was the motive of a Johns Creek man who was arrested for trying to explode a homemade bomb at a business that had fired him the previous day. The thing is, the bomb never detonated. The man worked for a vendor that washed and moved cars at a south Forsyth County auto dealership. Police believe he threw the device at a vehicle early one morning, expecting it to explode on impact. It didn’t. Police used surveillance video to catch him. Watkinsville police were looking to complete the story of the …
