Crime & Safety
Woman Attacks Man With Jar of Olives in Athens, Ga.
The information in this article comes from the ACC Police Department. An arrest doesn't mean a conviction.
Around 11pm on January 24, police officers responded to an assault at a College Avenue residence in Riverview Apartments.
The found a man who said that he and a woman he knows were arguing. The man told police that during the argument he was struck with an unknown object that cut him above his eye.
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The police contacted Tammie Elaine Johnson, who lives in the same College Avenue apartments.
She told the officers she struck the man with a jar of olives because he wouldn't give her money to buy crack, according to a story in the Athens Banner Herald. She was also upset because the man wasn't interested in being with her, the story said.
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Johnson, 49, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. EMS responded and transported the man to a hospital.
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