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Crime & punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some reports filed recently with Sandy Springs Police:
This victim reported that he and his girlfriend were arguing all day long. She left the residence and then later text-messaged him that she was on the way back with the police. The victim said he went outside of his apartment to wait on his girlfriend and the police. He said the girlfriend showed up alone and when she walked up to him, she grabbed and snatched his glasses from his face causing a scratch. According to him, she continued to assault him as he pushed her off while he attempted to retreat to his apartment. On the way, he pulled the fire alarm to hasten the response from the emergency services, who he hoped would help him. As he pushed his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend off of him while attempting to close the apartment door, she sprayed him with a chemical agent, probably pepper spray. He was visibly disabled but managed to get the door shut. When the fire department responded, the woman was gone and the victim refused treatment. The officers advised the man of known remedies for the pepper spray, and then gave him a case number. A passing neighbor noted the officers should have given him a coupon to man-camp instead.
Improper Frolicking
Officers were called to the Stratford Arms Apartments around 2 a.m. Officers found a couple in the pool, him with boxers on, and her with nothing on. They were cited for acting disorderly and sent on their way clothed.
Thefts
A man reported that someone stole his blood pressure meds from his mailbox.
A man reported that while he was playing tennis with friends, he placed his I-Phone on the edge of the tennis courts. Later he noticed it was gone. He said he saw three juveniles loitering near that area earlier. These are hot items so beware. Keep them close folks.
Forgery—Fraud—I.D. Theft
A woman reported that she found fraudulent activity on her husband’s American Express credit card. Someone ordered online, a camcorder from Circuit City and took possession of it at the store on Camp Creek Parkway. They later returned the camera for store credits totaling over $1200.
A woman said she checked her credit report and found someone applied for, and received a credit card in her name. She was later contacted by a collection agency in South Dakota.
A man reported someone accessed his online bank account and later forged three checks for just under $180,000.
Burglary
The resident said her garage door was left open. Someone went into her unlocked car inside the open garage and took cash, keys, and the garage-door opener from the car. (Don’t help them out folks!)
Other Stuff
A woman reported that she’s being harassed by her former pimp. He is text messaging threats to her.
Erika called the Sandy Springs Police Headquarters and said Jessica, when she was stopped by the police earlier, gave the name of Erika to the police officer because Jessica had a DUI suspension on her license at the time.
Arrests
Around midnight, an officer was called to a fight in the 6400 block of Roswell Road. Once things settled down, he was taking information from one of the victims, being treated by EMS personnel. A car drove by and the officer noted that there wasn’t much room for the car to pass by where he and the victim were standing. That proved to be the case when the victim, already being treated for fight-related injuries, suffered another injury when the car ran over his foot. The officer yelled for the driver to stop. She did, and backed up, and backed into a pole. The officer spoke to the driver who said she left her license at home. She then gave the officer a false name. The officer found a food stamp in her car that properly identified her. The officer ran the new name and found she was wanted for a probation violation in Stone Mountain. She was arrested.
Remember:
Leave GPS in car BAD
Take GPS from car GOOD
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Comments
By Tar and feathered
August 22, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
What we are dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law. Ooopps, stole your lame, played out, unoriginal line poste haste, now you’ll have nothing to say. (what’s new?)
By Fred
August 23, 2008 1:31 AM | Link to this
You got the accent wrong Tar………
By Pee'er Pressure
August 23, 2008 5:55 AM | Link to this
After reading Officer Steve’s blog today, I realize that police and law enforcement officials deserve much respect, and so does the law itself, which was written by a committee for the benefit of all, and, if you read the various codicils to the statutes, and ordinances, you come to understand that no graft or corruption is possible in the forming of laws, that no one individual ever benefits at the expense of others, and that is why our country is the greatest in der verlde.
You see, in America, we respect the law.
Flash: Obama cant win with Biden. The visual contrast between the two will slap America out of it’s hynpnotic obamamania trance. Hillary was the right choice, and the landslide win.
Prediction: McCain by a diebold machine in Ohio.
By jasonfightscrime
August 23, 2008 7:17 AM | Link to this
A passing neighbor noted the officers should have given him a coupon to man-camp instead.
You know I never thought to use a “passing neighbor” in my reports to add editorial comments. I think that’s brilliant.
By Dixie
August 23, 2008 7:20 AM | Link to this
Hear Hear ! Let’s hope the undecided delegates back Hillary. Otherwise this one’s lost. The big clue came when no one decent wanted to be his VP.
By catlady
August 23, 2008 7:48 AM | Link to this
what we need is a better grade of victims!
By Dixie
August 23, 2008 8:02 AM | Link to this
I disagree catlady.
I think we need to “thin the heard” of idiots. We certainly have more of those than we need. If he’s stupid enough to wait outside for his girlfriend and the police then he’s clearly not too smart. Too bad he didn’t get hit by a drive-by. I think he got off easy. As for us taxpayers who’ll have to pay all the costs for this incident, well that’s another gripe.
By Dixie
August 23, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this
herd . . .oops
By catlady
August 23, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this
Dixie, Yeah, where is Darwin when we need him?
By catlady
August 23, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this
BTW, as a teacher I can tell you these folks have LOTS of babies!
By Natsha
August 23, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this
If the guy the police wanted to send to man camp had hit that woman in self defense they would have probably sent him to jail instead.
By David
August 23, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
You can thin the herd but it will stll grow larger. Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large crowds.
By Dixie
August 23, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
Well done catlady. I sub. Tried full time fro 2 years but the homefront suffered. Single-mom-itis sucks.
I agree with your too many babies. And David’s comment. And with the economy sliding, more folks out of work, with more free time, means even more babies. Nice time for Bush to try to put further restrictions on birth control, Right? He’s the first idiot who needed to be thinned.
By Man Camp?
August 23, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this
That man camp reference is troublesome, but I think it was a joke. If not, then we’re all in trouble. Man camp: An entitlement of violence or the threat of violence as a negotiating tactic. The very idea.
By ron
August 23, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this
GPS in the car?Is it now impossible to travel without a GPS?People used to get around without one.What happened?
By Rick
August 23, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this
People have been driving around for almost 100 years with out GPS. Truckers and delivery folks can actually read a map. Some how I have managed to get to every place I have needed to get to for the last 35 years that I have been driving. Having a GPs in your car simply means you have $400.00 you don’t need need and are an idiot.
By Dixie
August 23, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this
I thought GPS = Good Pot Stash.
What does that have to do with directions?
By Cassie
August 23, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this
You know, I think improper frolicking is a brilliant expression. What the heck was she thinking, being the buck nekkid one in the pool?
By Rick
August 23, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this
what is this noise about respect for the police? when they stop planting evidence,pulling people over and searching their vehicle because they were driving dwi (driving while black), when they stop taking drugs and money from arrests, when they stop writing stupid speeding tickets for the sole purpose of a fund raiser, when they stop using a taser because someone did not get on the ground fast enough and give them a heart attack, when they stop driving around with blacked out windows that I cannot have,when they stop hiring these little leather freaks who like the tight uniform and military hair cuts just a little tooo much(what 2 men do in the privacy of their shower is their business) when they stop shooting up the chiefs wifes boyfriends house, when they hire someone smart enough to not shoot a student in the face during fire arm training( not supposed to have a loaded weapon in the building , but this instructor was special, the rules did not apply to him) when they hire people who have single digit IQ’s. And do not even give the line about ” yeah, You get in trouble , who you going to call?” I have never and cannot foresee a situation where I would call one of those clowns.
By Stone
August 23, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this
Dixie- if GPS does stand for good pot stash, then definitely always have one in the car when you drive. Last year Sandy Springs had me dead to rights, they just couldn’t find my GPS. The young cop just knew something was up, perhaps it was all the trembling I was doing, but try as he might, he couldn’t find anything. Close call, too close. Cassie- nice to see you back!
By Dixie
August 23, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this
Cassie, I love skinny dipping. Of course now at 47 I might get charged with cruel and unusual punishment towards the arresting officers.
Hi Stone! 3 words - Slow Deep Breaths
In through the nose - out through the mouth.
By Andrew
August 24, 2008 2:24 AM | Link to this
The man camp comment is uncalled for with GA’s strict domestic violence laws. Common,Steve, you know the guy 90% of the time gets arrested for the slightest of things. I got a misdemenor simple battery family violence for apparently spitting on my wife when I discovered an affair. My glasses were broke, I had deep scratches and marks on me but I got arrested. I wouldnt make a statement against her soas not to affect her greencard. But a female officer took her aside and talked he into making a statement she initially refused. Yes, it was a misdeamenor, but can screw up your life because of family violence. I dint strike her, she dint have a mark on her, what exactly do you mean to go to man camp? The cops and courts frown upon such behaviors taught there!
By Andrew
August 24, 2008 2:37 AM | Link to this
That woman should have had an arrest warrant issued. And for those of you who don’t know, GA laws are written that if you threw a spit wad on someone you can be arrested for simple assault. If you kissed someone on the nose and they didnt want it= sexual assault. And if you block someone from leaving a closed place, for a second or a day, = false imprisonment. And is you have EVER lived withsomeone, intimate or not, family violence charges or restraining orders will be issued. It is still illegal in GA to commit adultry, but unenforced maybe there would be less family violence cases if it was?PS my case was dismissed but not even after my wife asked for the charges to be dropped. I had to hire an good attorney and do proactive anger management classes and counseling all at a cost. But my ex did’nt have do to anything and the law only further divided us by automatically not allowing us to communicate to work it out.
By Tony
August 24, 2008 3:52 AM | Link to this
Rick, you’re an idiot. Your blog is one long sentence. You must of attended school in Georgia. You have something to say about police officers? Why don’t you go up to the next one you see and talk trash? I doubt that you’ll do that, I don’t believe you’re man enough. You couldn’t be a pimple on a good police officer’s a$$.
By Dixie
August 24, 2008 6:38 AM | Link to this
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Tony - While I agree with your defense of our officers serving, I must impress on you the notion that you are the ignorant one.
Your belief that an education in Georgia is grossly lacking is my first element of evidence. The fact that you’ve stated it so boldly in this comment area is my second. Strike three - you clearly can’t count. Rick had 2 questions and 2 comments in his assertion.
I hope I have invoked further consideration on the subject of an education available in Georgia versus your education. From wherever it is that you immigrated.
Dixie
AKA GRITS w GPS
(and operating on insufficient caffeine)
By Man Camp?
August 24, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
I wonder if that skinny dipper has an older sister 4me? Where was this pool, on the Buford Riviera?
I dig, I dig, I’m gonna blow my cool! So does anyone have a copy of the photos the arresting officer took of the licentious naked chick, er I mean defendant? Did she make any statements in the form of a lap dance? Did she approach the bench during her arraignment? Was she released on her own recognizance? Did anyone object?
By Zig Zag
August 24, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
She was at the Stratford Arms. But any vacant apts are probably gone after this blog came out
By cmm
August 24, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
I have to comment on the “coupon to man camp” line. I know it’s just a joke but the assumptions behind it are not.
Men are abused in relationships too. Men can be victims of physical abuse by women. Men should not receive ridicule and snark if they do the right thing and report to police. She committed a crime and just as if the genders were reversed, police should respond appropriately.
Second, in my own line of work, I frequently see men who end up arrested for domestic violence in these situations because the female lashes out at them, provokes them with strike after strike, and the man finally strikes back—and she calls the police, has visible marks, and they both go to jail. Totally not fair but that’s how it plays out. He ends up with a DV charge on his criminal history.
This man did the right thing. He resisted, tried to get away, contacted authorities. He did not lash out, strike back, go one better and end up with his own butt in jail. He needs an appropriate police response, not a coupon for “man camp.”
By catlady
August 24, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
Maybe the “passing neighbor” (was he dying?) just meant the man needed to be a little more assertive in his dealing with his aggressive (former) girlfriend. NOT that he needed to beat her up, but that he should’ve gotten her out of his life rather than allowing her to mistreat him.
‘Course, I don’t know anything about “man camp” except I thought guys sat around the fire, naked and painted up, and beat their chests and told tales of brave feats and heroism. When did it become a synonym to a place to learn abusive behavior toward women?
By Think B4 U Speak
August 24, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this
Since when does dwi=driving while black? Shouldn’t that be dwb?
By Andrew
August 24, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this
Thanks cmm, you saidit better thaan my experience, but usually only onegoes downtown “as the primary agressor” and than cant return to the residence nor speak to the other party and it only creats more of a division. Immediate counseling should be applid to both parties with in 72 hrs after arraignment. THe process only leads to bad feelings, resentment, financial burdens, and a breakdown of primary relationships. Not to mention the stigma that is immediately applied to it. And a felony can almost be better than any misdemeanor Family Violence arrest.
By Tony
August 24, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this
Dixie, you’re right, I’m wrong. I do apologize. I was just trying to get at the idiot with the idiot blog. The guy that called the police about his girlfried did the right thing. I would of arrested her if she was still on scene when I arrived or at least took out a warrant for her arrest. It seems like there was plenty of probable cause to take some sort of action.
By Man Camp.
August 24, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this
Catlady’s the one who needs man camp.
By Bill Strunk
August 24, 2008 9:50 PM | Link to this
You must of attended school in Georgia. [sic]
Hey, Antonio, before you criticize someone for their lacking of writing skills, it just might behoove you to polish yours first.
By Cassie
August 25, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
I think the man camp guy should have just tossed his girlfriend over his knee and tanned her hide, personally.
Dixie - I know, I know. I haven’t been around much. Been blogging!
By Cassie
August 25, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
Dixie -
Well, I tried to post, and then it went away! I have been on hiatus and off blogging instead. You do know you share a name with my great aunt?
Man camp, eh…I think he should have turned his girlfriend over his knee and tanned her hide.
By Cassie
August 25, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this
Dixie -
Well, I tried to post, and then it went away! I have been on hiatus and off blogging instead. You do know you share a name with my great aunt?
Man camp, eh…I think he should have turned his girlfriend over his knee and tanned her hide.
By Julie
August 25, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
Tony, please research the proper uses for have and of.
By Blog Police
August 25, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this
Hey everyone! Julie and Tony are having a catfight! Rowrr!
CATFIGHT! ROWRR!
By Les DuLunch
August 25, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this
Good grammar or not, Tony’s main point that Rick is an idiot is still valid.
By Dixie
August 25, 2008 11:37 PM | Link to this
Thank you Tony. And for supporting the cops. Rick is an idiot.
Hi Cassie. Love the spanking idea!
I’m glad to finally hear that I have a name that is shared with a person. Usually I hear “I had a dog named Dixie” or a horse. My favorite is “I think of you every time I go to the bathroom.” (Dixie cups) When I was a bartender TOO MANY men who had TOO MANY drinks would start singing (badly) ” I wish I was in Dixie”
Have you by chance been blogging in Arizona? Did you catch the article 2 days ago about the guy stalking the schoolgirl while he was armed and wearing a woman’s corset & skirt?
Or the one about the Indian opposition to man made snow because it used reclaimed water near “sacred grounds”? Because .001% MIGHT contain fecal matter that has been treated and returned? WOW what an uproar over that!
There was also one about some religious West Virginians(?) who wanted to keep their pictures out of the Motor Vehicle Data base because they claimed it marked them like the devil. AND A JUDGE ALLOWED IT !
Anyway I’ve enjoyed your comments and I’m glad you’re back. (Stone was missing you too.)
By Jimbo I
August 26, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this
Actually the typical response to a domestic disturbance is to arrest both parties. Cops got tired of being attacked by the victim when they arrested the assailant. You can only get shot or stabbed by a battered woman so many times before you change tactics.
The real thing (and correct me if I’m wrong) is that they can bar you from using firearms, even if you’re a soldier or a cop for even being arrested. Funny thing about that. Abusers will take a restraining order out against their victims so they can’t buy a gun (it flags on the background check)..
I get why a lot of these laws exist, and in spirit they’re great, but in execution they’re stupid (surprise!). There are delightful stories of wives abusing their husbands who are cops and holding them hostage by threatening to complain, thus ruining their career.
The whole domestic abuse thing is just a big mess and the way we deal with it as a society is worse.
By Cassie
August 26, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
Blogging in Arizona? No, but that sounds better than blogging about Bigfoot, the guy that kept his wife and kids prisoner in his trailer, and hooting because I made the GA Blogroll.
Hah! What about Dixie Beer? I loved Dixie Beer!
My Great Aunt Dixie taught for the Marietta School system for…almost fifty years before retiring. Had her funeral in Marietta off the Square. She’s buried with her sisters Jeannette and my grandmother Carol of Whitlock in Marietta.
So, outside of the dead thing, you’re in good company.
Howdy, Stone! (just makes me think of Stone Barrington….)
By Angel Warning
August 27, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this
Okay, the skinny dipping in the pool thing? I have to tell you about what happened to me on a date in 1981 at the Mi Casa Apartments off of Howell Mill Rd near Downtown Atlanta. I interviewed this beautiful blonde for a job as my assistant for a Chemical Company. I knew that if I gave her the job, I wouldn’t have a chance of cranking her. So I called her and asked her out. At first she was mad and disappointed but by the end of the phone call, she said yes. We went out to dinner, had the lobster, went to a cool bar, where she french-kissed a Hells angel type in front of me just because. I’ve never been so angry and turned on at the same time in my life.
We went back to my apartment, without the Hells Angel’s type, of course. We somehow ended up naked in the pool. I didn’t ask questions. I went for it. We had the best sex that chlorine ever protected, people, let me tell you. WOW! So, afterwards, I went to the bathroom. (beer). When I come back, the babe tells me that a man was watching the whole thing from his balcony just over there. I looked. He was gone. Then, I went for seconds, but the chick had had enough and she got up to leave. But, to my surprise and total astonishment, she had one little trick up her sleeve. She went around the pool and threw every single lawn chair into the deep end of the pool. I just watched saying stuff like, “This will really be funny when someone dives off the diving board!”
I had one more date with her. We ended up at her place and I was soon surrounded by about 15 cats. I hate cats.
I should have hired her.
By Fred
August 27, 2008 11:27 PM | Link to this
Last I heard Dixie Beer closed down because of Katrina and never reopened……..
By BigJake
August 28, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this
Lt. Steve - you were right on when you said a while back that you don’t mind young people wearing baggy pants - I saw in today’s AJC that the perpetrator was brought down quickly due to his trying to keep his baggy pants up. And showing additional intelligence, this all went down outside the Fulton County Courthouse. He pointed a gun at officers trying to make a stop on a traffic violation, and he is lucky he is not taking the celestial dirt nap.
By Cassie
August 28, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this
Really? The only place I used to be able to get it here was the French Quarter, back when Peachtree was still a real street and not a glorified apartment building. Next to the Stein Club?
By Fred
August 28, 2008 6:43 PM | Link to this
Cassie,
I actually heard it from the son of the owner of The French Quarter, who now (the son) has a restaurant called Beyond the Bayou in Chamblee (Doraville?). I grew up on the Gulf Coast with Cajun food and Dixie Beer and I asked him why he didn’t serve it being that his family was from there lol and thta was the answer I got. You should check the place out. It’s pretty good, or was the last time I went there which was before they moved to their current location………. The Depeoux though has some kick a* Cajun food. It’s where the old Freight Room in Decatur used to be……
By Dixie
August 28, 2008 7:54 PM | Link to this
Address please Fred? I don’t drink beer but I love cajun !
By Fred
August 29, 2008 6:01 AM | Link to this
check out www.thedepeaux.com Dixie. To tie this back in to Steve’s blog……… They give you so many oysters on an oyster po boy that it ought to be a crime…………. or maybe, it’s a crime that they don’t have a roast beef po boy…….
Beyond the Bayou is now located at 2201 American Industrial Way Atlanta, GA 30341
They have a great roast beef po’ boy. I haven’t been to the new location yet but I might today for a late lunch……
By Fabb4eyes
August 29, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this
No, catlady, the “passing neighbor” was peeing in the pool. That’s not a crime along Buford highway or you’d have to arrest everybody with a beer can in their hand.
Jury nullification sort of.