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Thursday, January 3, 2008
Crime & punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A 14-year old juvenile reported that just after 10 p.m. he was walking on a wooded path behind the tennis court at 100 Hampton Drive when he was jumped by five males. The suspects hit him several times and then took about two-bucks from him. He suffered bruises and cuts to the face. He was taken to Scottish Rite Hospital and checked out. He will be okay. The suspects were described as in their mid-20’s. The report said that they called out to him and told him to “come over” to their location. That would be the clue to turn it up a notch and get out of there—quickly.
A woman said that someone used a key to enter her apartment at 144 Allen Road and then took a vase and three cans of Coke.
This victim said that he believes he was pick-pocketed while shopping at the Kroger Store in the 4900 block of Roswell Road. Gone are his wallet and credit cards as well as $40 cash. Here is a good idea. Male or female, wear jeans and put your wallet or your debit/credit cards and cash in your FRONT pocket. It is hard to steal from your front pocket.
A woman, described as elderly, came into the Kroger Store on Dunwoody Club Drive, lined her cart with newspaper ads, as to restrict looking into it I guess, and filled the car with about 40 items totaling $181. She then kept on pushing the cart past the checkout and out the door. The employees, who actually recognized her from internal memos describing her as a shoplifter, followed her. They asked her to stop and come back inside but she refused, got into her van and left—without the cart of groceries. The tag is registered to an address which is less than a mile from the Kroger.
Scenes from Bad Movies
Alex was out with a girl. They went out on New Year’s Eve in once-fashionable Buckhead. They got into an argument and then, just after 4 a.m., drove back to Peachtree Dunwoody Road, where she lived. Alex said the girl’s brother drove up and her brother’s friend got out with an ASP baton, which is an expanding baton that hurts when expanded on your head. Alex did what was probably the smartest thing he did all night and ran off before any expansion could occur.
Oscar Alcantara-Rosas, age 26, from Northwood Drive, Sandy Springs, was arrested for his attempt to shoplift the following at the Target Store: Two leather jackets and four packs of watches. He concealed the four packs of watches in his pants and then put the jackets one, one on top of the other. Now picture this: Oscar looks like he’s on some serious steroids which by appearance alone, made it appear that he had serious anatomic deformities. So there he goes, walking out of the store looking like Frankenstein, with his arms sticking straight out because he can’t bend his arms. That attracts a good bit of attention to the security staff monitoring the cameras. On top of that, everyone he passed on the way out the door, said: “Hey look! That guy’s %#$@ is shaped like four packs of watches!!”
