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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The arrest report: Too few brain cells
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Our Einstein of the Week
Roopal Jatin Amin, age 34 from Alpharetta, was arrested after officers received a call just after 3 p.m. that a child was inside an unoccupied car. Fire personnel were called and forced the door open. The victim, a one-year old female, was not injured. The car was parked in the lot of the Costco, the windows were rolled up and the engine was not running. The mother of the child, and another child then arrived back at the car. She said the other child had to use the bathroom and the victim-child was asleep so she locked the doors and went inside to let the other child use the bathroom. The officer noted that the woman also rolled a shopping cart out to the car. The cart had three items inside which the mother admitted buying while in the Costco.
The victim-child was taken to Scottish Rite Hospital to be checked out, the other child was turned over to Amin’s husband and Amin was taken to jail. Isn’t it ridiculous that with all of the resources and information available to us so that we won’t do stupid things, we still see so many people doing stuff like this?
Here are some more, but not all, incidents reported to the Sandy Springs Police over the past week.
Robbery
A man came into the Waffle House on Northridge Road just after 4 a.m. wearing a hoodie and a white mask. He pulled a gun and robbed the clerk of just over $200.
A man said that around 10:30 p.m., he was walking outside his apartment on complex entrance on Northwood Drive when a car pulled up. A man got out, pulled a gun and took the victim’s wallet that contained $2. The suspect is a Hispanic male, about 18 years old and wearing white shirt and pants. He was in an older white Toyota Camry.
Theft
A man reported that he was selling his $2,574 Omega Seamaster Professional Watch (as opposed to the Omega Seamaster Amateur Watch) on Ebay. He was contacted by a man who purchased the watch through a Pay-Pal account. They met and exchanged the watch. Later the victim found that Pay-Pal refunded the paid amount back to the purchaser of the watch.
Arrests
Lynde Nicole Kelly, 24, of Sandy Springs, was arrested for Possession of Marijuana after EMS were called to her residence. She complained that she had problems breathing after drinking and smoking marijuana.
Joy Marie Samuels, 27, of Sandy Springs, was arrested after officers were called to a roommate dispute. The roommate wanted to get his stuff out of the apartment, thus the disagreement. When the suspect arrived at the apartment, things went South in a hurry and so she was eventually arrested for Obstruction of an Officer, Battery on an Officer, and Disorderly Conduct.
Think Sober
For those of you hitting the clubs, remember, if you haven’t got it done by midnight, go ahead and cut your losses, save money, and just head on out. Don’t get into that mode of the false sense of rationalization where you’ll just have a couple of more shooters and then cruise the bar one more time. Did you know that excessive drinking in the bar actually presents a harmful effect to the other patrons? It’s true. When you throw up on them, they could slip and fall causing physical injury to them and you; them by banging their head on the bar and you by a punch in the face.
