Friday, November 16, 2012
Strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported by local Patch sites.
Click on the links below for more on each 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 …
Friday, November 9, 2012
Weird Police News: Our weekly top 10 strange police stories from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for 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. 3. …
Friday, October 26, 2012
Strange crime news from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more details on each story. 1. This can’t be worth the risk, can it? A man was arrested at a Stone Mountain-area Walmart and taken to jail for trying to walk out of the store wearing stolen shoes and carrying a stolen bottle of milk. 2. A Winder woman trying to avoid arrest for an outstanding warrant tried to keep a Barrow County Sheriff’s deputy out of the storage room in which she was hiding by holding on to the unlocked door knob. She wasn’t successful. "As I turned the knob I felt someone turn it back," the deputy wrote in the incident report. 3. The manager of a Subway in Johns Creek told police a man carrying several large bags entered the business and started screaming profanities at the occupants. Then…
Friday, October 19, 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, September 21, 2012
Strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported on local Patch sites.
Click on the links below for details. 1. A suspected would-be robber intended to stick up a Johns Creek Panera while an employee was working alone one early morning. The suspect became enraged when the employee refused to let him in and screamed, “Open the f#@%ing door.” With that, the suspect punched the glass door, shattering it, then ran away. 2. A Lilburn homeowner told police he was upset about his escalating water bills that he chose another route to fill his pool. He attached a green garden hose to a fire hydrant nearby and ran it back to the pool. He had two feet of water in the pool before police arrived. In case you don’t know, it’s against the law to do this. 3. Somebody tried to steal an ATM machine located inside a Norcross-…
Friday, September 7, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more details 1. A Peeping Tom used a stolen ladder in an attempt to see into a second-story window recently in the Stone Mountain area. Police responded after the woman resident called 911 to report seeing a man peering into her upstairs bedroom. The man fled, but police found the ladder he used leaning up against the house. The ladder ended up being stolen from a neighbor’s yard a week before the incident. 2. You know a relationship is over when an ex uses bleach in anger. Two such incidents were reported recently in the Norcross area. One involved an ex-boyfriend, who doused his former girlfriend’s clothes and other belongings with bleach. The girlfriend told police that during a recent abusive argument, the …
