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Crime & Punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A sampling of reports filed with Sandy Springs police:
Arrests
A man was arrested after a resident of the 400 block of Morgan Falls Road saw him inside his neighbor’s car just after midnight on July 27. Officers approached him and once he saw them, he ran. A short time later, another officer saw him coming out of the wood line behind the apartments chased him to a stairwell. Before the officer could secure the suspect, he broke loose and ran to his apartment where officers found him hiding under his bed. This probably wasn’t the smartest move on his part.
Burglary
A man reported that while he and his family were asleep, they heard a loud noise and found that their front door to the apartment, in the 1800 block of Summit Place Drive, had been kicked in. As the victim walked into the living room area, the suspects ran out. The only lookout is that of four men who were seen just prior to and just after. No further description was documented.
The victim reported that someone entered a home in the 5700 block of Mountain Creek Road by forcing the basement door and then taking several appliances from the home that is vacant and for sale.
This victim said that she left her purse in an unlocked car that was parked in a garage on Bridgewood Valley Road. Sometime between 10 p.m. and midnight, someone entered the garage and took the purse.
The complainant said that someone used a concrete stone to break a window in a residence in the 8900 block of Roswell Road and took his laptop and cell phone. The suspect left behind blood which was swabbed for future DNA comparison.
Thefts
A woman reported that someone took her credit cards from her purse that she placed in her desk. The cards were later used on Mountain Industrial Blvd in Tucker, GA. Make sure that you not only hide your purse or wallet but lock it down well enough that someone cannot open a desk drawer or file cabinet and get to it. Even better, if you’re going to leave your purse in the desk area, go ahead and take the credit and debit cards out and place them in your pocket and carry them around with you. This serves two purposes: One, you will not have to worry about someone forcing open a desk and getting your cards and two, you can instantly react to any shopping emergency that may occur.
A man reported that while he was playing basketball at the gym, he had his belongings in a bag sitting outside the court area. He walked away for a moment and when he returned, his money had been taken from the bag. The victim said he saw three young males near the bag when he walked away. He found them and questioned them but they denied knowing anything.
A woman reported that workers were in her apartment on Roberts Drive doing upgrades. Later she discovered an expensive necklace was missing. (Knowing that workers will be in your home is the best reason to hide your stuff.)
A woman reported that she was informed by her neighbor that a package was delivered to her door on Park Gate Court while she was out of town. When she returned, the package was gone. (If you’re out of town, reschedule any deliveries, have a neighbor or family member pick up the mail and paper.)
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Comments
By Elizabeth
August 4, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this
So Steve… Do they pay you to list the trivial crimes so that we feel safe in Sandy Springs or so that “their” property values don’t drop? I see more driving to the store than I ever see here.
By JJ
August 4, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this
Some people are just plain stupid. You can’t fix stupid. You would think by now people would quit leaving their stuff unattended. Idiots.
By Get Real
August 5, 2008 7:52 AM | Link to this
So Liz….are you upset because no serious crimes happened in your area. Perhaps a murder or two…maybe a rape or at least an battery. Have you tried being positive in your life…obviously not. I tell you what…why don’t you go out and steal a car and run over an old lady. Then we will urge Steve to write about it…..geeeeezzzzzz get a life.
By Wxyz
August 5, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this
All these suspects running away from police and fleeing the crime scenes and hiding under beds…..what we are dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law!
By Lex Luthor
August 6, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
Is there something wrong with the steering columns in the Sandy Springs patrol cars? The wand on the left hand side seems to not be installed, and the steering lock seems to only permit right hand turns from the inside lane of a multi lane road. I keep finding myself saying “I wish there was a cop around to arrest that idiot.” The sad thing there are, they just seem to think the law musn’t apply to them. I guess its hard to write one’s self a citation.
It’s hard to give much respect to the phrase “cops are people too” when people in this counrty are subject to the rule of law.
By lori
August 6, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
Wxyz, duh! Of course there is a total lack of respect for the law. They are CRIMINALS. If they had respect for the law, or other people for that matter, they wouldn’t have committed a crime.
By Stone
August 6, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this
The same idiot using a different name says the same exact thing about “what we are dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law” almost ever time the Lt. posts. Original they aren’t.
By Lt. Steve
August 6, 2008 9:43 PM | Link to this
Liz, This ain’t COPS. Lex, seriously dude, we’ll chip in on the co-pay if you’ll go see someone.
By Oz
August 7, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
What we are dealing with here on this site is a complete lack of respect for the blog!!!
No, Stone, the line is from “Smokey and the Bandit”. There’s an iconic moment when Jackie Gleason shouts in dismay over the Bandit’s antics, “What we are dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law.”
Maybe I shouldn’t assume that most americans keep up with popular culture. I thought this line never gets old, it’s that good.
maybe i was wrong. I’ll come up with a better one…ahem….”What Officer Rose is trying to depict, here, on this blog, is people who have absorbed non of the cultural deference to iconic bastions of authority necessitated by the historical improprieties perpetrated by the disenfranchised legislative orphans who populate our streets.”
You can write momentous quotes like that too, Stone, and, you dont need a brain, why most members of the National Science Academy dont have brains, BUT, they have one thing that you dont have….a diploma, so by the authority invested in me by the committee of E Shortabus Maroonum, I hereby endow you with this memento of your accomplishments.
You know, Stone, a persons brain is not measured by how many people he calls a moron, but by how many people call him a moron.
By Stone
August 7, 2008 8:54 PM | Link to this
LOL! Sorry I hurt your feelings, “Oz.” Try to be a little more original next time and stop saying the same thing over and over again. Like I said, almost every blog the Lt. writes the same stupid quote comes up about people having a complete lack of respect for the law. It’s repetitive, it’s idiotic, it’s stale and unoriginal. Keep saying the same thing over and over, keep thinking that “Smokey and the Bandit” is a movie worth quoting, keep posting under multiple names and you’ll keep getting insulted by me. Thanks for the good laugh, you made my evening.
By Oz
August 8, 2008 12:43 AM | Link to this
Well.
By Fred
August 8, 2008 1:29 AM | Link to this
Don’t sweat it Oz, there are little signs up in Stone’s brain saying” Under construction, he blazed through here in his early years and we ain’t fixed it yet.” (OK, a bad paraphrase of the late great George Carlin, I figure you got it anyways lol).
Lt. Steve: WHile most of Lex’s post needs translation to me, he makes a good point about “that little wand on the left hand side.” It USED to be called a turn signal but in today’s high tech advanced society many refer to it as a “directional indicator.’ I rarely, if EVER, have seen a law enforcement office,r (formerly known as a PO-liceman), use one. Why don’t you folks use them little puppies? Do you really not know in advance that you will be changing direction? Does Jesus take the wheel and make the turns without telling you he will do so?
When I slow down and get as far away from a cop car, it’s not because I have done something wrong (although YOU would view is as suspicious behavior) it’s because the odds a very much that you are a lane darter, one that I can identify in advance, and for the safely of my family and myself, I ALWAYS try to distance myself from lane darters, they are wild and unpredictable and as such present a threat. Most usually lane darters ALSO suddenly stomp the breaks before Jesus takes the wheel. I suppose this is because they are surprised every time Jesus takes the wheel suddenly and turns them left or right………….
By Harris
August 8, 2008 6:03 AM | Link to this
Stone does have a point OZ, that smokie and the bandit line has gotten stale from overuse. Almost as stale as poor Freds putdowns. He owes Carlin an apology.
By Oz
August 8, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
Well.
(“Well” is Jack Benny’s famous one word line. I was the only one using it in blogs. Then guess what? George Wills used it a while back. I make references to popular culture. I cant write without them. I cant communicate without them. I need them to keep my thoughts in order.
You see, sir, lately I’ve been very accident prone. Last week I hit my arm’s funny bone and it still hurts. Two days ago, while I was pulling my t-shirt off, and momentarily blinding myself as it covered my eyes, I knocked my shin against my nightstand and I can barely walk now. And last night I got a really bad papercut wiping my a-ss.
Now that’s accident prone, man. And now I’ll accept your apology for dissing Jackie Gleason’s great line in Smokey.
Word up. Word down. Gee, you’re a clown. (My best stuff in first grade).
By Oz
August 8, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this
One more thing. I dont write for the trolls who lurk here 24/7 like LT5000 or Stoned. I write for the new eyes that check blogs out.
They didn’t get the benefit of my comment last time or the time before that, and besides, it’s just one post, and only one line, vs the 500 blabber mouthed mealy mouthed nonsense you trolls litter the blog with like so many dog lifting legs and sniffing a-holes.
So stfu, you horrid trolls.
JK lol
By Harris
August 8, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this
OZ, you pathetic little man, a sure sign of insecurity is someone who constantly starts sentences with I. If you took “I” out of your vocabulary Napoleon you couldn’t speak. Always complimenting yourself cutting down others and telling people to stfu. So full of yourself in your lonely little world. Face it you’re just a loser whose constantly changing your name repeating yourself over and over because you’ve run out of lines that someone else used 30 years ago. Like stone said you’re stale and unoriginal and that’s got you mad ‘cause deep down you know it’s true. I mean how many times under how many aliases have you said that what we are dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law? Like I said loser.
By Fred
August 17, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this
I take it Harris you are one of those lane darters that Jesus takes the wheel of and as such were “OFFENDED”.
Too bad, use a turn signal you butt wink.