Wednesday, May 15, 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 dog? After answering a call about two people fighting with knives at a Lawrenceville-area residence, Gwinnett Police found a large kitchen knife on a table, a steak knife on the stairs and several broken items scattered around the house. But despite the cuts and scratches seen by police, the husband and wife inside the house wouldn’t give any details. The woman's response to the mess? "The dog did it," according to the police report. Related Content: > Rage against the speed machine: A Lilburn resident says he had enough of watching that guy from down the street speed through the neighborhood, so he confronted the driver. He says that got him on the wrong end of a gun. The man told…
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Man stole $100 from fund-raising effort, then tossed the bucket out the window.
Click on the links below for the rest of each story. Here are some strange activities that police encountered in Northeast Georgia recently. > Not kids play: A driver acted like he was going to donate to a youth basketball fund-raising effort in a Stone Mountain-area intersection. Instead of giving a couple of bucks to a 13-year-old team member, he snatched the donation bucket and drove away with about $100. The driver was seen throwing the bucket out of the window as he drove down the road. Related Content: > Taxi offered more than a ride: You can count on this cab driver being out of service for an extended period of time. Dunwoody Police arrested a taxi driver who was allegedly dealing marijuana from his cab. After the police stopped …
Monday, May 6, 2013
Here are some strange activities that police encountered in Northeast Georgia recently.
Click on the links below for the rest of each story. > 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." 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 crashed…
Friday, May 3, 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. Gun shots they heard early one morning was probably him, too, they said. Related Content: > A bad way to hail a cab: This is why you should call a taxi when you’ve had too much to drink. A Clarkston man faces numerous charges — including DUI — after he broad-sided a taxi cab in an Athens intersection. The wreck injured two passengers in the cab. > When you gotta have Waffle House: A Buford man, who faces a DUI charge, told police he …
Monday, April 29, 2013
Weird Police News: Here are some strange activities that police encountered in Northeast Georgia recently.
Click on the links below for the rest of each story. > 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 felony. Related Content: > Look what I did: The driver who slammed his BMW into the front of a Lithonia house posted photos of the accident online with the words, "Crashed my E30 like a tool." He also noted he lost control after hitting a speed bump, but was “totally not speeding.” > She was a he? The Texas woman with whom an Oconee …
Saturday, April 20, 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. > Look, no undershorts: A Lithonia panhandler told female customers at a convenience store that he needed some cash. His pitch? "Look, I have no underwear on," he told them, according to Creative Loafing. He was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Related Content: > Pollen lewdness: It’s common to see funny things drawn on pollen-covered vehicles this time of year, but an Oconee County man told a sheriff’s deputy he found a surprise. Somebody scribbled a lewd drawing in the pollen on the hood of his truck and probably also urinated on the front grill. > Family fight at Greyhound station: A stepmother and stepdaughter reportedly fought over $300 at a Greyhound bus station in …
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 > Welcome to my stash: A teenager ran from DeKalb County police while being questioned for suspicion of smoking marijuana with his friends, and ended up right where the cops wanted. He ran back to his unincorporated Stone Mountain apartment, where police found a stash of pot and evidence for an intent-to-distribute charge. Related Content: > Backyard flasher: Here’s something that will be hard to forget for a Winder-area homeowner — a 31-year-old man standing shirtless in the backyard with his pants pulled down to his ankles. > 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 tame compared the …
Saturday, March 23, 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 > The definition of disgruntled: An ex-employee is suspected to have shared his former boss’s phone number on a Craigslist sex ad. The boss told Norcross Police that he has been receiving harassing calls on his work number from people answering a personal ad offering “best [oral sex] in town,” according to the police report. The ad was removed, but the calls kept coming. Related Content: > Hair burglars! A couple of men were seen on surveillance video smashing through the glass door of a beauty supply store and stealing hair extensions. The men, who had their shirts pulled over their heads, drove up in a car in front of the Beauty & Beyond in unincorporated Stone Mountain, pulled out a …
Saturday, March 9, 2013
More of the strange stuff police officers around North Georgia were up against recently.
Click on the links below for more information on each story > You can’t wash away the bad: A drug-store robber in Lithonia took in a little shopping before demanding the clerk clear out the cash register. The man put cigarettes and bottles of body wash and deodorant on the counter, and while the clerk rang up the items, he showed what looked like a hand gun tucked into his pants. "Just pull out the cash and make it quick," the suspect reportedly said. The robber took $190 in cash as well as the soap and smokes. Related Content: > People really fall for this? A Snellville man, who had answered an online ad, thought it was his lucky day when he received a $1,950 check from London with these instructions: buy various paintings for a British …
Saturday, March 2, 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 > He also didn’t leave a tip: A man at a Stone Mountain Waffle House used the old create-a-distraction ploy to skip out on his check. Unprovoked, the man stood up and began cursing at a woman customer. “I got mine in the car,” he said, according to the police report, believed to be a threat that he was going to get a gun. He left the restaurant, got into his car and drove away. He left an unpaid bill of $12.51. Related Content: > Another case of ‘not my drugs’: It seems pretty common when somebody gets caught with drugs, the explanation is that the drugs are somebody else’s. After a makeup bag containing amphetamine and diazepam pills was found by police in her car, a Buford woman who …
