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Friday, May 4, 2007
Crime & Punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Since April 26th there have been two apartment complex laundry facilities targeted for thefts. The bad guys are drilling into the coin box. This happened at the Alara Apartments on Highland Park Trail and at the Jasmine Apartments on Brandon Mill Road.
Heads up Since the middle of February there have been nine incidents where wheels and tires were stolen from vehicles in the areas along Roswell Road near Lake Placid (Roswell & I-285 area) as well as the area of Roswell and Pitts Road. The apartment complexes involved were Hampton Hills, Spalding Bridge, Stone Bridge, Jasmine, Providence North, and Glenlake. Business locations were Mr. Transmission and McCullough Service Center.
The wheels are 22-24” on GM and Dodge / Chrysler trucks. . The primary days of occurrence were Thursday, Fridays, and Saturdays. We think a couple of guys are being dropped off and then a car picks them back up between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.
Armed Robbery
A man reported that as he parked his car in his parking spot in the 3100 block of Treelodge Parkway, he saw two men who appeared to be trying to force his apartment door open. He approached them and they assaulted him and took about $60 cash before he managed to activate his panic alarm on his car. The two men then ran off. This happened on April 3 about 8 p.m.
This next incident happened on April 29th at about 5 p.m. at the Hampton Hills Apartments. A woman reported that while she was entering her car, two men came up and robbed her of $900 cash. One subject was armed with a pistol.
Burglary
The victim went out of town and upon returning found that someone cut the phone lines and turned off the power to the home from the breaker box. A back basement window was forced but the burglar was unable to get into the main area of the home due to the door leading up to the house from the basement. (This would be a good time to tell you that the door leading to the home from the basement should be a very solid wood door with a 2” deadbolt on it.)
While the resident was out of town, someone forced entry into her apartment in the 1900 block of Jefferson Drive and took two televisions, a laptop, X-Box game system, DVD player, two passports and all of her husband’s clothes and shoes. (No, her husband is NOT missing.)
Assault A man reported that two men, in a car, harassed him in the parking lot of a Citgo after he walked in front of their car as they were pulling up to the gas pumps. The victim said that one of the men threw a drink in his face. The victim said that he left that location and walked to his apartment complex across the street. As he was walking up to the gated entrance, the two suspects followed him. The victim said that one of the men fired a gun at him. The shot missed the victim who fled into the complex. The suspects then left the area. The bullet passed through a window and into a wall in an adjacent apartment while the resident was sitting on the floor. The projectile was recovered and later, video of the suspects were obtained from the Citgo.
Other Stuff If you were over in the area of Morgan Falls Road at the 600 office building complex, we were called out and later evacuated a building after someone found a paper weight in the shape of a hand grenade. It was not a hand grenade but the person who found it discarded in a box did the right thing and called it in.
Arrests Officers responded to a call of a purse snatched from a woman in the parking lot of the REI Store. The two suspects ran to the parking deck of 7000 Central Parkway. Unfortunately for the suspect, two witnesses chased them, ran faster, and caught them. In custody are two males, ages 17 and 18. The two witnesses who caught them are 33 and 45 years old meaning it always pays to stay in shape.
A 25-year old man was arrested for Felony Possession of Marijuana, Trafficking MDMA (Ecstasy) and traffic charges following a traffic stop. The officer noted the smell of marijuana and then “large amount of air fresheners strategically placed throughout the vehicle.” The man had 46 hits of Ecstasy in his pocket that he told the officer he forgot about and two grams of pot under the driver’s seat that Amess, the K-9 found.
Two males, ages 16 and 18, were arrested after officers, patrolling an area known for drug and graffiti activity, found the men sitting in the wooded area next to an apartment complex which is being torn down. The officers noted that a bag was lying on the ground in between the men, about two feet from them. The bag had a green leafy substance in it that appeared to resemble marijuana. The two men were arrested for possession of the marijuana.
Some people believe the “3-Second” rule, commonly applied to food dropped, also applies to the distance placed between a person and drugs when drugs are thrown onto the ground. This was formerly known as the “2-Foot” rule. The interpretation was that if the drugs were on the ground at a distance measuring over 24 inches, those drugs were legally declared “property of the earth” and no charges could be filed. One of the men, as he argued the rule of possession, forgot his had a joint behind his ear.
And Finally Just when you thought Murphy’s Law was just an urban myth, read this: A 43-year old man was arrested at 6335 Roswell Road, in the parking lot of a gym after a man reported that when he walked out of the gym and got into his car, a silver Mercedes drove up next to him and the driver of the car began to stare at him. The complainant said that he noticed a motion coming from the man’s hands, near the waist area and suspected the man was staring at him and masturbating at the same time. (This is sometimes known as multi-tasking.)
The report indicated the man told the complainant, “Hey Big Boy, can I play with you?” The complainant then got out of the car and walked over to the man’s car at which time the man probably read the word “Police” on the complainant’s T-shirt. The man was arrested for Solicitation for an Illicit Sexual Act, a city ordinance. The complainant is a detective with Sandy Springs Police. The guy in jail is upset because of all the luck, this guy was a cop. The detective is upset because all day long everyone’s been calling him “Big Boy.”
Have a safe weekend and take everything out of the car tonight when you get home.
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