Thursday, January 31, 2013
A person with the suspect was arrested for giving a false name and birth date to Gwinnett county police.
A man was arrested for shoplifting two packs of beer and a 12-count package of Ramen noodles at the Walmart at 1825 Rockbridge Rd. on Jan. 21, according to a Gwinnett county incident report. Police responded to a call from the store in unincorporated Stone Mountain on Jan. 21 about theft in progress at around 10:39 p.m. on Jan. 21. The complainant, an employee who was working a cash register, said she witnessed two men and a female "run out of the store" with the items in a cart. According to the report, the employee identified the suspect and the two people he was walking with in the parking lot. An officer looked inside the suspect's vehicle and saw the Budweiser and the Ramen noodles. The suspect gave the vehicle key to one of the …
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Shoplifting may have led to a man's death outside a Lithonia Walmart, but how does the petty crime affect the average consumer?
Shoplifting, a petty crime that may have cost a man his life outside a Walmart in Lithonia, hits Georgia families in the pocketbook each year. Vidal Calloway, 40—a good person who had a drug problem, according to his wife—was dead when police came to arrest him on suspicion of shoplifting two DVD players, Stone Mountain-Lithonia Patch reported. The police report indicated Calloway was involved in an altercation with two employees and a private security agent. The "truly sad situation," according to Walmart, brings to light incidents that happen every day, all across the country, and even more so during the holidays. About 27 million people in America—that's 1 in 11 people—are shoplifters, according to the National Association for …
Friday, November 30, 2012
A look at reported police activity in the unincorporated Lithonia area from November 23-28 focusing on the 30038 and 30058 ZIP code.
Be aware of crime and help deter it! If your community is interested in starting a Neighborhood Watch program, the information you need from DeKalb County Police Department is attached to this article in PDF format. Crime blotter: The information in the blotter was obtained from crimemapping.com for the DeKalb PD. This does not indicate a conviction. Nov 23: Burglary was reported in the 4500 block Idlewood Pkwy at 7:24 p.m. Description: burglary, residence. Nov. 23: Burglary was reported in the 4400 block Idlewood Pkwy at 2 p.m. Description: burglary, first degree, forced entry, residence. Nov. 25: Assault was reported in the 5600 block Salem Rd. at 6:15 a.m. Description: battery. Nov. 26: Burglary was reported in the 5600 block Salem Rd. …
