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Thursday, November 16, 2006
A whiff of crime
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Marshall’s Department Store employees on Roswell Road detained two men suspected of stealing a bottle of ‘Hugo’ lotion, ‘Escada’ perfume, a bottle of ‘Eternity’ cologne and a bottle of ‘Curve’ perfume. One man passed the bottles to the other. They were detained for that and a bag of pot in a Taco Bell bag. One man later rolled on the other telling the officers that the first guy had cocaine in the trunk of the rental car they leased. Jail for everyone.
An Eckerds Drug Store reported that a man stole a bottle of ‘Polo’ cologne. What is it with all the cologne thefts?
Cases of disappearing bags A man reported that he left his brown leather bag in an unsecured ballroom at the Westin Hotel-Concourse Parkway, on a chair that was pushed up under a table. The bag was left overnight. The bag is gone. Also gone is $2000 cash, wallet, prescription glasses, some fancy Tommy Bahama sunglasses, some more fancy Zgeer sunglasses, and his plane ticket to Tampa.
A woman came home from the airport and placed her suitcase on the front door step while she opened the door and briefly walked inside. When she came back out the suitcase was gone.
Not a good financial planA man said that he hired another man to oversee some financial planning for him. The victim wrote two checks to the man, totaling $4000. The man told the victim to make the checks to him and not the company. The man now said, through e-mails with the victim, that he will return only $1000 of the money. (That request to make the check to him and not the company is a big, big, clue that something isn’t right. Back off and do some research on anyone who would want that much money NOT written to the company he or she represents.)
