Sunday, May 5, 2013
Law enforcement encountered some strange activities in Northeast Georgia recently.
> Stay classy, backpage.com: Undercover DeKalb County vice officers used a personal ads website for a recent prostitution arrest in Lithonia. A detective set up a meeting with a woman after finding her ad on backpage.com, which stated, "Sexy, Classy/Insane Lips, $100.00 an hour." According to the police report, the detective told the woman, “You look different than the pictures on the backpage." Remember Prostitution Sting in Oconee County Nets 9 Arrests? Related Content: > Peeping Toms come crashing down: A Suwanee man and his cousin were arrested after their attempt to peer into the women’s restroom at a Duluth-area theater failed miserably. They reportedly crawled through the ceiling in the men’s bathroom and over the women’s room, then…
Saturday, January 26, 2013
It's all in the weekly roundup of strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported by local Patch sites.
> You don’t see this often: The Walton County Sheriff’s Department reported that people dressed up in gorilla suits were throwing debris on a roadway. They were told to stop monkeying around and clean up the mess. > Oh yeah … the fence: After crashing his vehicle through a street sign and a wooden fence, and then fleeing on foot in Barrow County, a Stone Mountain man under the influence asked police why he was chased. > At least it wasn’t Monopoly money: A man tried to make a purchase at a Stone Mountain Big Lots with a $5 bill disguised as a $100 bill. > Can I have my fake money back? Two suspects trying to spend five counterfeit $20 bills at an Oconee County Walmart tried to snatch the bills back and threatened to beat up the clerk, …
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, October 6, 2012
Strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported on local Patch sites.
A Lawrenceville man, 24, who took police on a high-speed chase near Dacula, told the officer he and his 18-year-old passenger were really trying to get away from someone else. The driver sped off after the officer stopped at what appeared to be a traffic accident between two cars, and reached speeds up to 80 mph before blowing out a tire. The driver told the officer that the man in the other vehicle had attacked him and they were simply trying to get away from him. The officer discovered that the driver has his license suspended, and later found several bags of pot, a scale, grinder and $1,745 in cash. The “person down” DeKalb County police found on a recent weekday morning ended up being a half-dressed woman who was sleeping on the ground…
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported on local Patch sites.
Police found quite an eyeful when they arrived at an Athens-area apartment: a woman dancing nude outside her second-story apartment. According to a story in the Athens Banner Herald, residents were shaking their heads while watching the woman — described as being 5-foot-1 and weighing about 230 pounds. Taking things into his own hands, a Stone Mountain pizza delivery man went after teens who had ordered pizza and wings but refused to pay, even after one of them brandished a gun. The four teens took off running and the delivery man gave chase, grabbing one of the suspects trying to climb over a fence. One of the teens showed the man a handgun and he backed off. Later he chased the group in his car, caught up to them and was told "Bro, you …
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Unusual police reports from Patch sites in Northeast Georgia.
Winder Police say one of two women suspected of shoplifting at two stores admitted that she hid a stolen toothbrush in her bra. Further investigation found the women had shoplifted around $50 worth of goods from Dollar General and Fred’s. They admitted to the crimes. Interesting, it was the second report from Winder of a woman hiding a stolen item in her underwear. On an earlier date, a woman reportedly took nail clippers out of its package at the same Dollar General and concealed it in her bra. Ouch! A box of feminine sanitary pads was the target of a shoplifter recently at an Athens grocery store. When police found her and told her the reason she was stopped, she pulled the pads out of her purse and offered to pay for them. She’s barred …
Saturday, September 1, 2012
A roundup of unusual cop stories from Northeast Georgia.
A Stone Mountain-area man was taken to the cleaners by a bogus dry-cleaning business earlier this month (sorry, we couldn’t resist). The man responded to a special of “11 pieces for only $18.95,” according to the police report. He dropped off the clothes and paid the money, but when he returned to pick up his clothes six days later the building was deserted. A truck driver from South Carolina stopped for a bite to eat at a gas station off I-985 in northern Gwinnett County. When he returned, his tractor rig was gone. Let’s see … OK, here’s your problem ... he left the truck running. Really? Stealing paint? Home improvement must be pretty expensive. A Lawrenceville man was arrested on felony shoplifting charges after he was caught trying to …
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 …
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Don't mess with a man's cheeseburger in North Georgia.
A man learned the hard way that you can't exchange your half-eaten double cheeseburger for a McDouble at the Winder McDonald's. When he tried, police said, he used a lot of profanity, upsetting employees and customers. So he was charged with disorderly conduct. Also in Winder, a man reported a rack of ribs stolen after a domestic dispute with his girlfriend. The melee also resulted in missing liquor, smeared beans and broken eyeglasses. A domestic dispute in Dacula led to a man's claim that the woman who used to live with him has been stealing his mail since he threatened to evict her. She's also alleged to have called him a "bad person." A silver pitcher, a China plate and some coins were among the missing items after a family left their …
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
A Lilburn man going through some tough financial times believed the tow-truck operator when he said he was repossessing the Isuzu Rodeo from his driveway on Bruce Way. According to the incident report, the man told Gwinnett County Police he was in bankruptcy and believed it when the tow-truck driver took the car on June 16. But on June 19, the man's lawyer called the finance company and found that it was not repossessed. Talk about kicking a man when he's down. The Isuzu was then listed as stolen. A Norcross man got more than he bargained for when he rode his bicycle to the gas station to get a beer. When he left the store a man came up from behind and challenged him to a fight. The victim tried to walk away but the man stabbed him in the …
David Binder
1:39 pm on Saturday, September 29, 2012
You'd be amazed how widespread the theft of catalytic converters is. It's actually a big problem in areas all over. As a police dispatcher I can tell you it happens more often than you'd think. Besides the actual weight of the metal for recycling, the catalyst for emissions is platinum. Yes platinum as in jewelry, just not the same grade, but still a precious metal. That's one reason why … more ›