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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Crime & punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some reports filed with Sandy Springs police:
Robbery
A man reported that around midnight on the 4th of July he was at the intersection of Mystic Place and Mystic Drive when he was approached by three men demanding his money. He said he kicked one of the subjects and then ran to his residence. The victim said that he had been drinking a bit earlier in the evening.
Burglary
Officers responded to a residential alarm just before 5 a.m. in the 500 block of Highbrook Drive and found someone attempted to enter the home through a window. Officers found fresh footprints under the window and signs that entry was attempted. The alarm scared the intruder off before actually getting in. The officer found that the burglar got into the victim’s car but did not take anything. (ALARMS WORK; USE THEM)
Security video showed a pickup truck pulled up to a business in the 6300 block of Roswell Road and three males got out and made entry into a vacant office next to the intended target. They smashed the alarm with a sledge hammer and took a 42-inch TV.
Someone entered a home in the 100 block of Mt. Paran Rd. either through an unlocked door or window at the rear of the home while the owner was gone. The house appeared ransacked. A pistol and some jewelry are missing.
Forgery, Fraud, and I.D. Theft
Someone used the victim’s information to open three credit cards. The victim’s bank notified her and she later told the officer she suspects a sister whose apartment she was recently kicked out of.
Thefts
A 76-year old woman reported that she gave the clerk of a convenience store on Northside Drive a $100 bill for some peanuts and ten-dollars of gas (1 pint) and the clerk gave her back only change for a $20 bill which he contends she gave him. She then refused to accept the change and then called the police.
The builder of a home in the 300 block of Heards Ferry Road said that sometime over the past 2-3 months, someone took about $15,000 in copper wiring from the house.
Assault
A woman reported that she was at a bus stop on Buford Highway when two men stopped in a Honda and spoke with her. She said that she needed to go to Douglasville. The men said they would take her there. (1st clue-that’s a long way at these gas prices.) She got in but soon noticed they were not headed to Douglasville. She told them to take her back at which time she was assaulted by the men. She grabbed the keys and fled to a house on West Northway Lane, followed by one of the men. The homeowner appeared and the men fled. The officer noted the victim was intoxicated. It is possible that the woman originally agreed to do something in exchange for the ride or money or whatever but she claims no agreement was made other than for beer.
Other Stuff An officer was called to the Morgan Falls Dam area and spoke to Duane and Dan. Seems Duane and Dan, whom we’ll call D and D, had a dispute going on over the following: Dan said Duane rammed his canoe and damaged it, his fishing rod, and a paddle. He added that he fell out of the canoe and “almost drowned.” Dan’s cellphone is also at the bottom of the river as a result. Duane on the other hand said Dan kept crossing over his fishing lines and then rammed his canoe into Duane’s John Boat and then hit him several times on the arm causing a laceration and dislocated fingers. That, according to Duane, is how the paddle was damaged. They were referred to another authority. Would that authority be? Could it be Montel, the DNR, River Keepers Mediation Club, Jerry Springer, Dagmar Midcap or Uncle Dewey, who is a 2007 graduate of the Roosevelt Institute of Verbal Judo?
