Drive-Up DUI, Meat in Pants and More Strange Tales
Here are some strange activities police encountered across Northeast Georgia recently.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
News Nearby: Can You Help Start Your Car So I Can Steal It?
More of the strange stuff police officers around North Georgia were up against recently.
Click on the links below for more info on each story > Can you start the car we’re stealing? A Snellville man, who was cleaning out his deceased father’s home in unincorporated Stone Mountain, was robbed and carjacked by armed men in the driveway. But the car wouldn't start without help from the victim, so the men made him get it running before they drove away. With the help of a witness, DeKalb County Police apprehended the suspects a short time later. > ‘Dumb thing,’ for sure: A convicted felon who served 13 years in jail for armed robbery found himself back behind bars after he accidentally shot himself in the leg. The man, from Buford, admitted to police that he had done a “dumb thing” after a pistol he had tucked it in his waistband …
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Strange Chainsaw Incident, Stolen Clothes and Other Odd Tales
More of what police officers around Northeast Georgia were up against recently.
Click on the links below for more info on each story > Is that a chainsaw bar in your pocket? A man tried to steal a 24-inch chainsaw bar from an Oconee County Lowe's the only way he could, we suppose.He stuffed it down his pants and tried walking out the door. > That’s a lot of shirts: Stuffing some of the items on her person, a Lawrenceville woman was arrested for trying to shoplift 44 shirts from the juniors department at a Kohl's store in Snellville. The total cost of the stolen goods was valued up to $538. > These would look great in a rec room: Two bar-top gaming computers worth $8,000 were taken during a break-in at a Lilburn pub. The suspect entered the bar in the early morning hours and also stole an undisclosed amount of cash …
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Weird Police News: Booze, Pot and Other Crazy Stories
Here's what police officers around Northeast Georgia were up against recently.
Click on the links below for more info on each story > OK, so who had the weed? Gwinnett Police interrupted an apartment robbery in unincorporated Norcross, during which a group of armed masked intruders reportedly confronted the occupants while looking to steal a stash of weed. Most of the robbers climbed out a window when the cops knocked on the door, leaving behind a 15-year-old accomplice, who confessed to the crime. The robbers left with $200, but there was no report of there being any marijuana in the apartment, nor whether it may have left through the window with the other suspects. > Even the sidewalk isn’t safe: Failing to maintain lane was the least of the charges a Walton County man faced after he struck a pedestrian who was …
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Thieves Make Off With $65,000 Worth of Chicken Wings And Other Strange Stories
Two men were caught loading a truck with frozen wings - were they planning the ultimate Super Bowl party? Here's their story and other strange police stories from Northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more info on each story > That’s a lot of chicken wings: Two men were arrested recently for trying to steal $65,000 worth of frozen chicken wings. They intended to load 10 pallets worth of chicken into a rental truck. Did they have a big Super Bowl party planned? > Sure, blame it on the aliens: A man was charged with DUI and leaving an accident after he struck a fixed object and left his female passenger bleeding on the pavement. Walton County Sheriff’s deputies found the car in the ditch with the engine running, wheels still spinning and both front doors open. The passenger was taken to the hospital. Deputies later found the suspect, who was reportedly prowling on somebody’s front porch. Why was he there? He …
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Weekly Round Up of Strange Police Stories
Man tried to pass disguised $5 Bill as a $100 and other reports from police officers around Northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more info > Can I have my fake money back? Two suspects trying to spend five counterfeit $20 bills at an Oconee County Walmart tried to snatch the bills back and threatened to beat up the clerk, who held on like a champ. The men ran away. > At least it wasn’t Monopoly money: A man tried to make a purchase at a Stone Mountain Big Lots with a $5 bill disguised as a $100 bill. > You don’t see this often: The Walton County Sheriff’s Department reported that people dressed up in gorilla suits were throwing debris on a roadway. They were told to stop monkeying around and clean up the mess. > Oh yeah … the fence: After crashing his vehicle through a street sign and a wooden fence, and then fleeing on foot in Barrow …
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Weird Police News: Satan Apprehended, Woman Bites Man and More
Here's what police officers around Northeast Georgia were up against recently.
Click on the links below for more of the story > Satan apprehended: An Athens-area man told police “someone on the Internet” told him to steal snacks from a Kroger store. But the suspect had some good news, according to the police report: He “caught Satan and had him in a bottle in his book bag.” > ‘Lowlife’ called out in ad: An Oconee County parent, wanting the return of his son’s dirt bike, took out an interesting ad in the Oconee Leader. He offered a $2,000 reward for “the return of this 2008 KTM dirt bike and for the conviction of the lazy, sorry, selfish, lowlife, inconsiderate poor soul or souls who took his bike." > Woman bites man: A Tucker-area woman suspected of injecting the drug oxycodone argued with her husband while he drove…
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Weird Police News: What Was That Green Leafy Substance?
Here's what police officers around Northeast Georgia were up against recently.
Click on the links below for more information. > Eating the Evidence: A man pulled over for suspicion of DUI by a Loganville Police Department officer was seen chewing on a green leafy substance. Wonder what that was? The suspect refused to open his mouth and continually turned away from the officer's eyes, but he still got pinched for drug possession. The officer found a bundle of white pills hidden in the man’s underwear. > “Yapping” Leads to Gun Confrontation: A exchange of words outside a Dacula-area QuikTrip on Christmas Eve led to two men going to their vehicles to get their guns. Inside the convenience store, one of the men told the clerk to stop “yapping,” to which the second man, a Buford resident, replied, “Dogs yap, I’m a grown …
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Top 10 Strange Police Stories of the Week
Weird Police News: Our top 10 strange police stories from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more details 1. Can you sink much lower than this? A 7-year-old Athens boy carrying $310 to pay the rent had the money stolen on his way to the leasing office. The boy's mother gave him the money to take to the office, but as he was en route, he was stopped by a man who was playing basketball nearby. The suspect took the money, pushed the boy to the ground and fled. The boy was not injured. 2. Is this love? A Norcross woman bailed out her boyfriend from the Gwinnett County Jail with the stipulation that he not contact her again, since he had been charged with aggravated assault and battery against her. Wait, huh? She bailed him out because she felt sorry for him. When she received a text saying, “Can you get me…
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Weird Police News: Bike-Swiping, Flying Bullets, Lunch Box-Theft and More
This holiday, let's all thank our law enforcement officers for dealing with this stuff.
It's Thanksgiving week, but holiday season doesn't slow down unusual criminal behavior. Snatching, shouting and shooting continue. A man asked another man if he could borrow his bike at a Sonic drive-in in unincorporated Norcross. The bike owner said yes, and now there's a new bike owner. A television has a new owner after it was swiped from a church in Bogart. Somebody forced a door open at Bogart Christian Church and made off with a flat-screen TV. Another man in Norcross succeeded in a snatching, but he didn't get the bag he wanted. When he demanded a woman's purse, she gave him her lunchbox instead. So there is such a thing as a free lunch. An Athens employee found something he didn't like in his lunch -- a trace of cleaning agent in …
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