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Crime & punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some reports filed recently with Sandy Springs police:
Robbery
A man said that he was approached by a man in the 1000 block of Brentwood Way who hit him on the head, just above the eye. The victim said he gave the suspect just over $46 and the man fled.
Theft
The victim said she was having painting done in her home in the 600 block of Glenforest Road. At some point, she says her checkbook was stolen from a desk drawer. The painter was a friend who brought two helpers with him.
A man in the 9400 block of Roberts Drive said he placed his iPhone on the ground while he played basketball. Someone took the phone.
The victim said they had to vacate their apartment in the 5400 block of Glenridge during renovations. When they returned, four of their bicycles were missing. Value of the loss is just under $1,000.
An 89-year old man told officers that someone took his checkbook and credit cards from his apartment. He said he sometimes has high-price prostitutes visit him.
A woman reported that she placed her purse on a counter in a common area of an office on Hammond Drive and went into the restroom. When she returned, her wallet was missing from the purse. She found the wallet in the trash can but the $400 cash in the wallet was gone.
I.D. Theft, Fraud, and Forgery
This victim reported that someone obtained her bank account number and then made a fraudulent check with it. A check was used at the Kroger on Dunwoody Club Drive for just over $140.
A business owner was notified by his bank that his business account showed negative funds. He learned that an employee applied for and received a credit card on the company account. The employee used the card for over $1,000. He said this employee has done it before.
A woman on Waterford Court said she received her checks through the mail around the middle of August. Shortly thereafter, about ten checks were written in her name for over $900.
A man said he bought a motorcycle and so when he went to the DMV to register the bike the DMV said that title was already on file and his was a forgery.
A woman on Marsh Trail Circle said she met a man named John at the Ritz Carlton in DeKalb County. They came back to her apartment and she told John to write his phone number down on a pad of paper in her purse (Clue here). John did so and later she reported her wallet and $950 cash missing. She called the number and left a message. John called her back on another number and said he didn’t have her wallet. She has not been able to get in touch with him since.
I don’t even need to tell you but I will. Common sense goes a long way. Why in the world would you want to have this kind of cash in your wallet?
Burglary
A woman reported that someone entered her unlocked garage in the 500 block of Tanacrest Drive and removed a $300 pair of hedge clippers.
A woman said while she was in the kitchen of her home on Roswell Road, she heard a noise from her bedroom. She discovered someone forced entry through a bedroom window and stole her cigarettes.
Comments
By Cubby Blues
September 8, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
I know the cost of living is increasing faster than wages but life must be tough these days if cigarettes are being stolen from bedrooms.
By Howland Owl
September 8, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
Even worse, the thievery of the cigs was considered worthy of a call to 911. If it were a gallon of gas stolen from a lawnmower, I could understand the need for an investigation….
By Slem
September 8, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
A $300 pair of hedge clippers? Did they come with a garnder?
By Get Real
September 8, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
Hey Steve…was the 89 y/o man filing a complaint or bragging????????
By jabster
September 8, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
They probably didn’t charge the 89 y/o with soliciting because they knew the evidence wouldn’t stand up in court.
I’ll be here all week…don’t forget to tip your server… :)
By Ron Graham
September 8, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
Editor:
Honesty and integitry are forgotten mores of today’s society. TV and public schools are cesspools of iniquity. Its time that parents and churches combat the wave of dishonety in our society!
Ron Graham
By Troglodyke
September 8, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
A business owner was notified by his bank that his business account showed negative funds. He learned that an employee applied for and received a credit card on the company account. The employee used the card for over $1,000. He said this employee has done it before.
An the employee is still an employee because…? Not only would I have fired him/her on the spot, AND brought him/her up on charges.
A woman on Marsh Trail Circle said she met a man named John at the Ritz Carlton in DeKalb County. They came back to her apartment and she told John to write his phone number down on a pad of paper in her purse…I don’t even need to tell you but I will. Common sense goes a long way. Why in the world would you want to have this kind of cash in your wallet?
Not only that, but why would you bring some guy you just met back to your apartment, AND give him access to your purse?
By Robby
September 8, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this
This is why everybody needs a trusty pistol and loose laws to allow for the removal of said degenerate trespasser from the gene pool.
By Fred
September 8, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this
Ron Graham, What the hell are you yammering about? Have you a LUCID point to convey? oh, nevermind, it’s the internet, lucidity in not required. Praise Jesus and pass the offering plate.
By Troglodyke
September 8, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this
Honesty and integitry are forgotten mores of today’s society. TV and public schools are cesspools of iniquity. Its time that parents and churches combat the wave of dishonety in our society!
Schools are only “cesspools of iniquity” because administrators and teachers have been bullied by parents into not disciplining children properly. Schools cannot effectively teach anything these days, as they are too busy coddling parents who complain, and coddling kids who get no discipline at home.
However, I think every single generation complains about “today’s mores.” Are people less honest and/or more violent than in years past? I agree that TV, movies, and video games are much worse than they used to be, but again, parents can control what kids see—at least to a point.
Churches have been around for centuries, and have never been able to solve this problem. What makes you think they can now? Most people who go to church only go as a social thing, and no more live by a divinely-inspired code of conduct than anyone else. The atheists and agnostics I know are way more moral than the churchgoers I know.
It all goes back to parents, really. “It takes a village” sounds very corny, but when the community is allowed to interact with children appropriately, and parents discipline their own kids and allow the community to also discipline, kids are much better off.
By Cassie
September 8, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this
Bring back the paddle, take away the television, and stop thinking that you can educate children by giving them a laptop. You do not educate children by teaching them how to use a tool - a computer - you are merely teaching them how to use the tool, you aren’t teaching them how to think, or how to understand and apply higher concepts.
By reader
September 8, 2008 8:05 PM | Link to this
Bring back the paddle? What higher concept is that? Are you a parent? Most definitely, accountability is lacking, and a paddle can’t fix that. You don’t have to take away the TV, just set limits, the same for the video system and the computer. Everything in moderation. It does not have to be all or nothing. It all starts with responsibility, first with the parents, then the kids.
By ron
September 8, 2008 8:06 PM | Link to this
It’s the 89 year old guy that’s stealing the money.You can’t get high priced hookers on a social security check.
By bob
September 8, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this
lets see typical n**** doing what they do best crime they dont want to work just steal all the ones I met under 30 dont work dont care jsut steal
By bob
September 8, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this
lets see typical n**** doing what they do best crime they dont want to work just steal all the ones I met under 30 dont work dont care jsut steal
By bob
September 8, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this
lets see typical n**** doing what they do best crime they dont want to work just steal all the ones I met under 30 dont work dont care jsut steal
By bob
September 8, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this
lets see typical n**** doing what they do best crime they dont want to work just steal all the ones I met under 30 dont work dont care jsut steal
By bob
September 8, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this
lets see typical n**** doing what they do best crime they dont want to work just steal all the ones I met under 30 dont work dont care jsut steal
By bob
September 8, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this
lets see typical n**** doing what they do best crime they dont want to work just steal all the ones I met under 30 dont work dont care jsut steal
By bob
September 8, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this
lets see typical n**** doing what they do best crime they dont want to work just steal all the ones I met under 30 dont work dont care jsut steal
By bob
September 8, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this
lets see typical n**** doing what they do best crime they dont want to work just steal all the ones I met under 30 dont work dont care jsut steal
By MARCEL MARCEAU
September 8, 2008 8:58 PM | Link to this
””,.,?.;.!!!
By Lt. Steve
September 8, 2008 9:09 PM | Link to this
Bob….when you hit the send button, it takes a few minutes. Don’t keep hitting it.
By QCarp
September 8, 2008 9:25 PM | Link to this
BOB…………I was waiting 4 one of your kind 2 reply!! It never fails!!!! GET A LIFE!!!!
By sokak6
September 8, 2008 9:41 PM | Link to this
Bob passed out and fell on the sent button.
By sokak6
September 8, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this
I might hsve meant the send button, but right right now I don’t remember.
By Fred
September 9, 2008 2:25 AM | Link to this
Funny how that goes QCarp, “I was waiting 4 one of your kind 2 reply!! It never fails!!!! GET A LIFE!!!!”
Yet if I say that to you, I am a racist.
No I’m a realist. BOB is a racist, and you are an idiot. What the hell, I’m probably an idiot too………….
By Catlady
September 9, 2008 3:57 AM | Link to this
probably!
By Southern Born
September 9, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this
As much as I enjoy dumb crook stories, it boggles the mind to see all these dumb victim stories. Are they really victims of crime, or of themselves?
By Elmo
September 10, 2008 5:24 AM | Link to this
Bob’s stupidity is “jsut” hilarious.
By Tancred
September 10, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this
No wonder the Braves traded Mark Kotsay; he’s wanted for bank robbery!! It’s right there at the bottom of page C5.
By atl20g
September 10, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
The 89 year old would be charged with assault with a dead weapon if they really thought it would hold up in court.
By Analchord
September 10, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this
There was a common thread in all of the crimes Officer Rose reported to us: In every circumstance, there was something of value that changed hands, but without a proper receipt. None of this would ever happen if people held on to their receipts. How many times have we all shop lifted some beef jerky or a can of diet dr pepper, and then when we go back to the store to get our money back cause we say the food was spoiled or that there was a fly in the soda, the guy behind the counter sez, “U gots you’re receipt?”
“It’s in the car, I think, I had it but I dont know, it’s probably at home, why?”
“Cause without the receipt, it’s against company policy to refund items shoplifted by a moron, sir.”
“But I told you I had the receipt, it’s in the car or at home, or I threw it away…”
“No receipt, no refund.”
“aww, give me a pack of marlboro’s in the box……do you have any matches?”
“No. We have lighters right here. A buck fifty. Want it or not, sir”.
“Aww, naw, I’ll get a pack of matches later, how much for the marlboros?”
“Nine Twenty five.”
“N-n-n…. WHAT?”
“That’s right, nine twenty five. I included the sh!t you shoplifted in here about an hour ago, sir.”
Camera to shoplifting idiot making a break for it and getting about halfway to the exit before being cut in half with a streetsweeper the clerk had been training on him underneath the counter the whole time…..
Sixteen months later…….”Has the jury reached a verdict?”
We have, Your Honor.
“What sayeth ye?”
“Not guilty, and can we say something extra, Your Honor, about the defendant’s actions?”
“No”.
“The defendent is free to go”.
By Tar and Feathered
September 10, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this
“Analcord” aka- “The Way”, aka “Oz”, aka “harry willis”, aka “ty cobb”, same lame loser, same lame poser changing his name so nobody notices that he keeps repeating the same old crap. So transparent.
By Tar and Feathered
September 10, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this
He’s also posing under Hans apology, wxyz, post haste, truth march, cop talk, and his newest alias Banditry of Pundrity as well as the way, oz ty cobb harry willis, and on and on and on
By Tar and Feathered
September 10, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this
Oh, and lest not forget pee’er pressure.
By mustang100
September 10, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this
On the previous post on education, does anyone see the hypocrisy of the NAACP wanting to remove the MOST SUCCESSFUL school super in the nation (Gwinnett), while the NAACP is totally silent on the Clayton County School System crisis, because the 4 idiots responsible for it and removed by the governor are black? They DO want it both ways after all.
By Lt. Steve
September 10, 2008 10:14 PM | Link to this
Did you see me on TV tonight? My hair was fabulous.
By mustang100
September 10, 2008 10:39 PM | Link to this
Yes, you looked simply mahvelous!
By Fred
September 11, 2008 2:18 AM | Link to this
Steve, I missed you tonight but I saw you the last time and the comb over needed some work. Ever think of going Bruce Willis since your are already going Ron Howard?
Mustang: You are a racist for pointing out the obvious. Shame on you………… I guess. i myself have notice the TOTAL absence of the NAACP (funny how they don’t see Indians, Koreans, or Mexicans as “colored people”, or even how if I call a black person a “colored person’ I will be called a racist, yet their lying name persists) having a response to the Clayton County debacle. Bunch of racist pigs. I wonder if Stone sees an NAACP chick he wants to nail and as such we can see a post by him that states, ‘I’d do her.” So much for them marriage vows eh?
But hell, what do I know, I”m a racist………….
Catlady: No probably about it. Has Stone announced a desire to “do you” as he did for McSame’s VP? If so are you proud that he would forsake his solemn marriage vows to “do you”? how does someonen “do” another person anyways? Ah hell. I shouldn’t be asking such weighty questions, I’m a damn racist not a cool druggie like Stone………..
By Harris
September 11, 2008 6:06 AM | Link to this
Fred you sound like a broken record with your “what do I know, I’m a racist… You really seem to have anger issues, always p** off at one of the other posters. Get some help, go back on your meds, put down the booze, leave Burger King for a real job and for the love of God think up something different to say than what do I know…. Now about that whopper, may I have extra pickles hold the tomato and let me get some fries with that.
By Catlady
September 11, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
Fred has a serious mancrush on stone. I suspected it before with every single one of his posts commenting on stone and when he got upset when stone said he’d bang the vice pres candidate (palin not biden). Now I know he’s got a thing for him after that last post asking “am I proud that he would forsake his solemn marriage vows to do me”(whatever that means) and all that weird stuff that only an infatuated lover would say. Fred surprise surprise didn’t know you were gay that way. Now I understand the built up frustration and anger. Cum on out of the closet fred, its OK that your that way.
By Dixie
September 11, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this
Fred - make mine a Whopper Jr., no tomatoes, with onion rings and a large diet Pepsi please.
By Dixie
September 11, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this
Lt.Steve,
I didn’t get to see your hair. I don’t have TV. Will you please email me a pic?
Thanx, Dix
By Tar and Feathered
September 11, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this
Got a fries with that shake burger boy? Didn’t know we were in the company of royalty all this time. Now hurry up boy I ain’t got all day.
By Analchord
September 12, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
After reviewing the Police Log summaries that Officer Rose was kind enough to blog for us all, I think it’s safe to conclude that what we are dealing with here is a complete and total lack of respect for the law.
‘muff said.
By fred
September 17, 2008 1:12 AM | Link to this
Catlady, May I respectfully say Bite me? I’ve had a “mancrush” on the druggie ever since he called me a damned racist. Is that simple enough for you or do I need to put it in a happymeal with a hash brownie?