Monday, December 24, 2012
People's holidays are getting spoiled all over Northeast Georgia.
Who takes a holiday decoration right from a neighborhood's welcome sign? The Grinch. Who slithers into a gym locker room and makes off with people's wallets and iPhones while they're exercising? The Grinch. Who busts into a house, ransacks it, and runs out with a shotgun? The Grinch. (And hopefully not worse.) Who leers around a home with bad intentions, but gets noticed by an alert occupant? The Grinch. Who takes stuff without asking -- and then brings it back without being asked? The Grinch. Who breaks into a church and steals all the stuff you need to make and spread music? The Grinch. And, who, in the end, releases his inhibitions and runs into the streets to celebrate with the masses? The Grinch. It's a magical time of year and what …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported by local Patch sites.
Click on the links below to get the full story. 1. In these economic times, who doesn’t dream of hearing, “You’ve won the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes?” A Stone Mountain-area woman heard those words, but there was a catch. She was told by a male phone-caller that a camera crew was on its way with the check, and all she needed to do to prepare for the big moment was to purchase $200 in prepaid cards to cover taxes and other costs. She obliged, and was called later by the man asking for more money. The camera crew never arrived. 2. More fake sweepstakes news: A man who recently moved to Snellville after being scammed out of $20,000 in New York because he supposedly won multiple sweepstakes told police the man who tricked him keeps …
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Weird Police News: Our weekly top 10 strange police stories from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Click on the links below for more details 1. Some friend. A Massachusetts man told DeKalb Police that a friend set him up to have another man rob him while he stayed at a Tucker motel. The victim let the two men in when the friend asked to borrow $10. The robber apparently forced the friends into the bathroom while he took $400 in cash, a laptop and cell phone. The "friend," a Lithonia man, then left, saying he wanted to get his cell phone back, but never returned. 2. A patient of a Dacula-area medical clinic made it clear how angry she was after she was told to reschedule an appointment for which she was late. “I’m going to blow your building up,” she said during one of the many calls she made to the clinic, according to the police report…
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Weird Police News: Our weekly top 10 strange police stories from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
Click on the links below for more details on each incident 1. A stolen Twix bar led police on a pursuit on bicycle recently in Athens. The suspect took off running after police approached him about a report from a store employee, who said the man stole the candy bar earlier in the week. The officer hopped on his bike and chased the suspect, who stopped because he was tired. He was charged with shoplifting. 2. A dispute between a Buford couple left the husband with blood on his head, hands and face, prompting police to ask the obvious question: “I asked [the man] what happened to his head and why he was bleeding,” the officer wrote in the report. “He stated ‘That crazy woman beat me with a shovel’.” Later, the wife was asked a similar …
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Strange crime news powered by the police reporting from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below to get details on each story 1 It’s campaign-sign-stealing season. A Johns Creek told police her Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan sign was taken from her yard. And not only that, another campaign sign was lifted from a nearby intersection. In Athens, numerous campaign signs were reported stolen in the Five Points area of town. Athens-Clarke County Police also were told car-magnet signs for State House candidate Carter Kessler were stolen while campaigners were soliciting votes. 2. In an act that probably will not end up on his resume, a man robbed a Norcross-area car wash after the owner told him there weren’t any job openings. 3. It was a “whiff of raw marijuana” that prompted Snellville Police officers to sniff out a pot-…
Friday, October 12, 2012
Strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported on local Patch sites.
Click on the links below for more details 1. 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 two 19-year-old men — cousins, as a matter of fact — arguing amid suitcases, clothes and computer equipment strewn about the yard. Witnesses say one of the teens tossed the other’s belongings outside while threatening to kill him. 2. In our stupid-criminal department comes the story of an Athens woman who tried to shoplift shoes from an Oconee County Kohl’s by having two children who weren’t hers walk out the door wearing them. And that’s only the beginning. The woman also was charged…
Saturday, September 1, 2012
A roundup of unusual cop stories from Northeast Georgia.
Click on all the links for more details 1. 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. 2. Really? Stealing paint? Home improvement must be pretty expensive. A Lawrenceville man was arrested on felony shoplifting charges after he was caught trying to steal several five-gallon cans of paint from a Johns Creek Home Depot. Apparently, he tried to wheel the paint out of the store in one of those shopping wagons when he was stopped by…
Friday, August 17, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more details. 1. When will stoners ever learn? Using air freshener to cover up the smell of weed never works. A Gwinnett County Police officer making a traffic stop on I-85 smelled overwhelming odors of marijuana and air freshener coming from a rental car driven by a Stone Mountain woman, with a South Carolina man in the passenger seat. The officer wrote in his report: “I noticed there were two clip-on air fresheners stuck inside the air vents. This stood out to me because this was an Enterprise rental car and the average motoring public does not add air fresheners to a rental car.” The officer later found a UPS box with a PlayStation 3 box inside. Inside that box were three pounds of pot. 2. When a man was …
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
Click on the links for more info on each story. 1. It’s common for someone to blame the traffic for being late to work. But a Lawrenceville woman flipped that around to explain why she had side-swiped another vehicle in a Snellville-area intersection. The woman said she was sitting in a left-turn lane during a red light, then decided she wanted to go straight through the intersection. According to the police report, she punched it when the light turned green, struck the car and continued on her way. Police caught up later and heard this explanation — she was late for work. The woman was arrested and charged with several offenses, including hit-and-run, improper lane change and no proof of insurance. She ended up being really late for work…
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
Follow the links for more details. 1. 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. Mom said the prothsesis was missing the shoe. 2. Apparently defending the honor of his wife, a Dacula man was pepper-sprayed in the face by a man who said he only had a “mutual conversation” with the woman. The victim confronted the man at Little Mulberry …
Tammy Osier
1:38 pm on Sunday, November 11, 2012
Well, might want to keep number 2 locked up for a while because she is going to really be irate when government healthcare is implemented in full force. Her wait could be three days to three weeks whether she shows up on time or not...lol more ›