Saturday, May 4, 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." > 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 through the …
Wednesday, May 1, 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. > 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. > 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 woke up hungry and …
Saturday, April 27, 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. > 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 County man had a …
Tuesday, April 23, 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. > Slow-ped: A Lawrenceville man was pulled over for not observing the posted speed limit on Duluth Highway. The speed limit of 45 mph was deemed too fast for his moped. He was cited for operating a low-speed vehicle on a high-speed road, and it probably didn’t help that he also had a suspended license, which led to another charge. > Road rage turns violent: A road-rage fight, which both men blamed the other for starting, led to one of them shooting at the other’s car. Police charged a Lawrenceville man, 26, with battery, terroristic threats, aggravated assault and criminal damage after he reportedly fought with a 65-year-old man near Stone Mountain Highway and Killian Hill Road and shot …
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Strange stuff police officers around North Georgia were up against recently
Click on the links below for the rest of each story. > Trickery played on cashier: A cashier in training at a Buford-area Golden Corral handed over $400 to a tall man in a Yankees cap who “kept asking her for change.” According to the police report, the man distracted the cashier as he picked up and put down bills, and continued asking for more change. The cashier told police the man said he wanted smaller bills because he was going to play poker. He was out of the restaurant before anybody knew what happened. > 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 …
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Read about what law enforcement in the Northeast Georgia area has been up against recently.
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Weird Police News: 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. > She knew it was stolen, but … A woman who was driving a car reported stolen told Gwinnett Police this when asked if she knew it was stolen. "Yes, well no. I was told they were not going to report it,” she said, according to the police report. The woman, from Walhalla, S.C., told police the car had been rented by her boyfriend and, while she knew it had to be returned, she thought she had more time. After further questioning, she admitted the Walhalla Police Department had alerted her that the car had been reported stolen. "[The woman] kept saying that she needed to return the vehicle and that is why she was driving it,” the reporting officer wrote. > They cleaned house: An Athens man …
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Weird Police News: 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. > Blabbing on Facebook: An Alpharetta man, accused of stealing more than $3,000 from a Walmart cash register, bragged about the suspected thefts via Facebook. He posted a photo of him with the money and the words, “I love my job.” He is charged with stealing the money out of the till over a five-day period. A Walmart associate, who is a Facebook "friend" with the suspect, alerted authorities of the post. > “Christine” was a scammer: A Lawrenceville man answered an online credit card advertisement and was duped out of $2,000 by a woman who called herself “Christine.” The man called the number listed in a “Master Plan Card” ad he found in a Google search. “Christine” answered the call and …
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. > 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 rest of his bizarre behavior. Before police arrived, the man, an employee at the store, made strong sexual advances to another male employee, who put him in a headlock and sent him outside. Once outside, the man took off his clothes, pushed certain body parts against the store window, and made pelvic thrusting gestures. When police arrived, he punched and kicked one of the officers before being tasered — twice. > Backyard flasher: Here’s something that will be hard to forget for a Winder-area homeowner — a 31-year-old man …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Weird Police News: 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 cheese did him in: It was “cheese residue” on the face of a Winder man that led to a shoplifting charge at a grocery store. The man was reportedly seen putting a package of cheese in his jacket and then entering the restroom. He was found in one of the stalls with crumbs on his face and leftover cheese floating in the toilet. > Warning shot: Oconee County Sheriff’s deputies investigating a report of gunfire found a 66-year-old man who said he fired his shotgun into the air “to scare the witches away.” His guns were turned over to his son for safe-keeping. > Nude walking: A man found walking around naked on a walking trail near a Norcross apartment complex didn’t seem too fazed by a…
