Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Here are some strange activities that police encountered in Northeast Georgia recently.
Click on the links below for the rest of each story. > Bad roommate: Two Lilburn-area men said their roommate had been high on meth for six days, which probably explained his behavior. They claimed the roommate stole some of their possessions, broke into their cars and shattered one of the vehicle’s windows. Gunshots they heard early one morning were probably from him, too, they said. > Caught by his own pants: A Fairburn man didn’t get far when he tried to run from police after a traffic stop. "I gave chase advising the suspect to stop running several times," the officer wrote in the incident report. "The suspect continued for approximately 500 yards and rounded the corner of Kohl's, where he tripped over his pants, which had fell [sic] …
Friday, April 26, 2013
Weird Police News: Here are some strange activities that police encountered in Northeast Georgia recently.
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Friday, April 26
Click on the links below for the rest of each story > She was a he? The Texas woman with whom an Oconee County man had a long-distance relationship turned out not to be “Brenda,” but “Oscar” instead. After the Oconee man found out and broke off the relationship, the jilted “Oscar” started falsely reporting various crimes at the man’s residence to the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office. > Driving test cheater fails: A Sandy Springs man allegedly altered the grade on the state’s driving exam taken by another applicant in Cobb County. He reportedly changed a 10 to a 90 and wrote “pass” on the exam before handing it to a Georgia Department of Driver Services employee. His criminal charges included concealing facts on a government document, a …
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Weird Police News: More of the strange stuff police officers around North Georgia were up against recently
Click on the links below for the rest of each story > They cleaned house: An Athens man told police that a man and a woman posing as a clean-out crew made off with $8,300 worth of items from his home — including computers, jewelry and TVs. Athens Clarke County Police say the man confronted the couple as they were loading up a pickup truck. They told him they were with the mortgage company and were at the house because it was going into foreclosure. The mortgage company told the man no such action was ordered. > If the glove fits: A Lilburn man was robbed of cash, jewelry and other belongings after he was held up as the red dot of a laser-sighted firearm was pointed at his chest. The incident occurred outside a Dickens Road apartment …
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
More of the strange stuff police officers around North Georgia were up against recently
Click on the links below for the rest of each story > Ladder peeper: A Snellville woman told police that a Peeping Tom has been peering into her window on numerous occasions over the past year. He put up a ladder in the front of the house to get a peek. > Blabbing on Facebook: An Alpharetta man, accused of stealing more than $3,000 from a Walmart cash register, bragged about the suspected thefts via Facebook. He posted a photo of him with the money and the words, “I love my job.” He is charged with stealing the money out of the till over a five-day period. A Walmart associate, who is a Facebook "friend" with the suspect, alerted authorities of the post. > “Christine” was a scammer: A Lawrenceville man answered an online credit card …
Saturday, March 30, 2013
More of the strange stuff police officers around North Georgia were up against recently.
Click on the links below for the rest of each story > Blame it on Bambi: A man charged with DUI in Walton County had a lot of answers for police after he swerved his car into a ditch. But it’s unlikely the officer got the explanation he wanted to hear. The man said he couldn’t have smelled like alcohol because he doesn’t drink. He said his speech was slurred because he doesn’t speak English very well. And the car in the ditch? He swerved to miss a deer and ran off the road. A witness told police she didn’t see a deer, by the way. The man was charged with DUI after he refused a sobriety test. > One word — bizarre: A man standing in front of a paint store in Lilburn pulled his pants down and told police to "come and get it.” But that was …
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
More of the strange stuff police officers around North Georgia were up against recently.
Click on the links below for more info on each story > ‘Please and thank you,’ says robber: An armed robbery suspect at least was polite when he tried to rob a Norcross-area check-cashing business of $300. He handed an employee a note that read, "I would like to withdraw $300 from your register." It wasn’t a joke, considering the large kitchen knife he was holding. However, the suspect became nervous and fled before getting any cash. He was found later with several similar notes up his sleeve — "I need about $20,000 please & thank you," "I need $20,000, would be appreciated, thank you," and "Need a key to a car that would be appreciated." > Rob-you.com? A Villa Rica man, hoping to find a dating match he contacted via an Internet website (…
Friday, December 28, 2012
There are a lot of ways to attack and defend, and Northeast Georgia villains and victims have tried most.
When some people are after you, resisting is a good idea. But when the police are after you, resisting generally leads to more trouble. There's enough trouble in the world without going looking for it.
