Crime & Safety
Man Charged After Prowling Around Cars, Crouching by Door at Walmart
The man was charged with disorderly conduct and loitering after giving police a false name.
A Gainesville man was arrested last week after he acted suspiciously outside the Loganville Walmart and gave a false name, according to a Loganville Police report.
An officer patrolling the parking lot on April 27 was stopped by a driver who told him someone was acting suspiciously around several cars. The man was wearing blue jeans, a camouflage jacket and white sunglasses, the driver said.
The officer found the man near a store exit, crouching and talking on a cell phone, according to the report. When the officer asked what he was doing, the man replied that he was waiting for a friend to pick him up. He also began sweating, looking around, and stuttering as he talked.
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Concerned the man might run, the officer told him to keep seated and asked for his name and date of birth. The man gave a name but seemed to have trouble doing the math to get his age right, according to the report, so the officer checked it out and then got help from a Snellville fingerprinting scanner.
The fingerprints identified the man as David James Stancil, 27, of Tanners Mill Road in Gainesville, according to the report. After he was identified, the report says, he hung his head and told the officer he gave a false name because he thought he had a probation warrant.
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Stancil was handcuffed, cited for disorderly conduct and loitering, and taken to jail, the report says.
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