Weird Police News: Beer Logic, Weed Cover-Up and More

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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 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 asked by police why , he had a good answer. Really. "I am drunk. I don't know why," he said, according to the police report. Makes sense, right? You’d pretty much have to be altered to go into a grocery store, fill a cart with four 30-count boxes of beer and walk out — all caught on the surveillance camera. The man’s story also included claims that he bought the beer from a bootlegger and tried to exchange the cans for bottles of beer at a Kroger.

3. Scams involving fake iPads are becoming common. Earlier this month, we wrote about a victim duped out of $200 and ending up with an iPad-shaped tile inside a FedEx box. This week, we have . An Atlanta man told Norcross Police he agreed to buy iPads from a man at a shopping center parking lot. The seller, who stayed in his car, showed the man the wrapped-up fake goods and asked to see the money. When the man pulled out $1,000, the suspect threatened that he had a weapon and said, "Give me all the money or I will kill you!" The man handed over the cash and was left with the picture frames.

4. A Walton County resident got into some hot water after he reported a fraudulent charge on his credit card. But, after Walton Sheriff’s Office deputies responded and looked into things  in two other counties. Do they take credit cards in jail?

5. A then threatened to stab an employee after she was caught. The woman walked out the door with the meat, but an employee stopped her outside and she returned the items. When the employee tried to prevent her from leaving, she turned and said, “I’ll stab you.” The employee wasn’t sure she actually had a knife, however.

6. A Norcross man, threatened with a knife by an unknown assailant, told police . The suspect came up from behind and held the knife to the man’s throat, demanding his money. After the man said he didn’t have any money, the suspect told him to go into the store and "steal some stuff,” according to the police report. Police told the man it would have been better to call authorities rather than commit a crime.

7. A Dacula-area musician told police that his style of music might have contributed to a burglary that resulted in his Yamaha 250 keyboard being stolen: “[The victim] said  for his own personal enjoyment,” the officer wrote in the incident report. “[The victim] said that he suspects that someone may have gotten tired of it.”

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