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Crime & punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
These are incidents reported to the Sandy Springs Police over the past week.
The victim reported that four people came to the residence on Johnson Ferry Road claiming to be roofers. A male and female came in and two other males stayed in a car. The male said that he needed to open the bedroom window to remove roofing debris. The female stayed with the victim for a while and then both parties left. The victim discovered that jewelry was missing from the bedroom. The victim was in his mid-80’s. This looks like a case where the elderly victim was targeted. The report doesn’t say whether the victim solicited work by roofers or people claiming to be roofers just showed up. Don’t let folks in your home until you get on the phone and verify who they are.
The victim said someone broke the front-door glass window of a building on Hanover Park Road, went inside and turned the video camera to another direction, disconnecting it. The burglar then went into several offices removing a safe containing $900, a 42” plasma TV and two laptops.
The victim’s apartment in the 2100 block of Monterrey Pkwy. was entered by someone forcing the front door. Nothing was reported missing. A second burglary was reported in the same block. In this burglary, there was no forced entry. Missing are a pair of Chantelle sunglasses, a metal container with several rings in it and a pink Coca Cola baseball cap.
Theft
Two men pumped $47 worth of gasoline into a light blue Dodge Charger and then left without paying.
Roswell Road and Cliftwood Drive 30328 6/17 A woman reported that she was at the Shell Station around 3 p.m., cleaning out her car. She said two nicely dressed men approached her and asked if they could help her clean out her car (CLUE) so she said yes. She soon discovered that her purse was missing. She is missing her cell phone, a Visa card, SSN card, and two checks made out to her. Beware of strangers offering to do menial tasks for you maybe? If you agree, which, in my opinion you shouldn’t, (cleaning out your car isn’t that labor-intensive), grab your goods and have them with you.
A man reported that someone took his wheelbarrow. He told the officer he found it at a business located behind his home. The business is doing landscaping. The owner found two wheelbarrows, one that matched his exactly. (If you have the time, mark your yard equipment with a name and/or a number you can identify later. Yard equipment is a popular item to steal.)
A customer of RBM of Atlanta had work done on his car, took a loaner car, and has not been seen since. Unless he has a good reason not to return the car, he’ll be subject to a Theft by Conversion warrant.
Other stuff
Rashalee Foster, age 27, Mildred Flowers, age 44, both from Stone Mountain, and Jenayia Nichole Walls, age 29, from Atlanta, were arrested and charged with Disorderly Conduct following a fight at the Pro Nails Store. The report indicated the disturbance started after one of the women could not pay for her nails. The report even said someone suffered a broken nail.
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By Stephen
June 24, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this
Um… Maybe he likes the color of the loaner car better not to mention it being a newer ride.
But your right, he will need to be told that he needs to return the car. Perhaps the sound of handcuffs being ratcheted over the phone will do wonders.
By What a Crackhead Will Not Steal
June 25, 2007 7:19 AM | Link to this
After a lengthy tour of living in some of Atlanta’s up-and-coming-from-the-ashes-of-years-of neglect neighborhoods during the past twenty years – Cabbagetown, Grant Park, Kirkwood, Old Fourth Ward, Reynoldstown, Peoplestown, and others – I have noticed one thing. A low rent crackhead will not steal ANYTHING that is associated with manual labor, like say a shovel, pickaxe, hard-tooth rake, etc.
A homeless person may as they are most times kookaburra and may be taking it to build their space ship launch pad in the Kudzu thicket behind the Wayfield’s grocery store. However, it is the crackhead who seems to steal more stuff than the man pushing the shopping cart through your neighborhood with tin foil on his head and a six-party conversation going on underneath.
Sounds like the man’s wheelbarrow was conscripted into duty by the landscape crew or mistaken for one of their own. Your advice seems appropriate, if only to serve as a reminder to your neighbor who borrows it that it is not theirs to keep forever.