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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Weird Police Stories: Wearing Stolen Shoes, Stolen Collection Bins and Other Strange Stuff

Strange crime news from Patch sites in northeast Georgia - we're not making this up.

Click on the links below for more 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 he …

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