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Crime & Punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Notes from the Sandy Springs police blotter:
Robbery
The employee of the Shell Station on Holcomb Bridge Road reported that around 10:30 p.m. a man, wearing a black hat described as a beanie, a dark hoodie and a red bandana over his face, came in and pulled a gun on the clerk and then left with an undetermined amount of money and some Ice House beer.
Burglary
This apartment in the 1000 block of Brentwood Way was entered through a forced rear window. A laptop, computer and games, as well as $180 cash were taken.
The Cocktail Cove bar on Roswell Road reported a burglary that occurred just before 7 a.m. when someone threw a large block of concrete through a glass door. Several TV’s were missing.
Someone entered a business in the 8200 block of Roberts Drive. Several several laptop computers were missing. No forced entry was found and the complainant believes an access card was used. Another business next door also had entry and laptops missing.
Someone entered an apartment in the 2000 block of Cimarron Parkway by breaking the sliding door. They took a video game system, Dell Computer, a flat-screen TV, an i-Pod, Taylor-Made golf clubs and $3,000 worth of DVD’s.
Motor Vehicle Theft
A woman reported she loaned her car to a friend. The friend returned the keys to the woman and said the car was parked in front of one of the condo buildings. She checked but the car wasn’t parked there.
Short version-An officer spotted a car driving erratically on Roswell Road. He stopped the driver and determined he had been drinking. While performing the roadside tests for DUI, the officer heard radio dispatch a call regarding a stolen car. The description of the car matched that which he had pulled over. The officer had another officer bring the owner of the car reported stolen to his location. She ID’d the car and said that she was at Taboo-2, a club on Roswell Road. She had valet park her car and then, when she was ready to leave, she gave the ticket to the valet. Unfortunately for her at the time, she then saw her car drive off south on Roswell Road. It wasn’t the valet driving the car. The suspect was booked for stealing the car and DUI. The victim said she did not know who the man was. Her car was returned to her at the scene.
A 1997 black Mercedes E-420 was taken from the parking lot in the 200 block of Huntcliff Village Drive. It was unlocked and the keys were over the visor. Not good. Even more: The car is owned by a dealership, not the victim, so it’s really not good for this guy.
Thefts
A woman said she hosted a New Year’s party for several friends at her apartment in the 700 block of Vicksburg Place. The next morning her IBM laptop and her friend’s X-box 360 were missing.
This victim said he allowed a man, whom he met in rehab, to stay at his apartment. The man was supposed to be at an AA meeting on New Year’s Eve but got intoxicated instead. The victim picked him up and said the suspect spent most of New Year’s Day in bed. He left the man in bed and later, when he returned to his apartment, the man was gone along with the victim’s digital camera, laptop, and two bottles of prescription meds. He later contacted the suspect who denied taking the items.
A man accidentally left his debit card at a retail store on Roswell Road. He didn’t realize it until the next day. Luck being what it is the card was gone. Someone took it and used it to purchase $1,600 in goods. The delivery address was not too far off on Barrington Drive. An IP address was also obtained from the computer requesting the items from the card. This will give the detectives great leads. This crook could have been using a separate computer address and physical mailing address but I’ll bet it’s his or her own.
Arrests
Two men were arrested at an apartment complex in the 7800 block of Roswell Road after a resident called the cops regarding a moving truck that was going from building to building, parking for a few minutes in front of each. The officers responded and talked with the driver of the moving truck, Juan. Juan told the officers he was moving out and was waiting for his friend and future roommate to come out of his apartment to the truck. The officers asked Juan to step out which he did causing the marijuana, in the bag between his legs, to fall to the floorboard. They found another bag behind the driver’s seat. About that time, just after the awkward silence that occurs every time someone drops their dope in front of the cops, Juan’s friend, Demarkus, came walking up. He too had some of the green leafy substance on him. They were booked into jail and the truck, empty at the time, was locked up. It was interesting to note that both men had different stories as to why they were there although one lived on the complex. This is a good example of why, when you see something suspicious, you should call the cops.
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Comments
By snoop
January 8, 2009 6:17 PM | Link to this
I love your column. Keep it up. I just love to read about dumb criminals and often times dumber victims.
By reader
January 8, 2009 6:36 PM | Link to this
My husband mistakenly left his entire wallet at the grocery store during the Christmas rush. Bad memories rushed back to when his SS # “may” have been “compromised” due to faulty operating procedures by a former employer. The company paid for a fraud alert. For two years, every time he went to the bank, they verified his ID. It irritated him beyond belief because he felt he was made out to be of questionable character. I thought it was a good thing. As soon as he realized that he left the wallet behind (several hours later), he headed back to the store. Someone turned it in. Nothing missing. There are good people out there.
By Cassie
January 8, 2009 7:33 PM | Link to this
Lt. Steve- Two of these are FAR too close to home. Is it the Shell on the east or west side of 400? And Barrington Drive - that is my neighborhood! WTF
By yellow
January 8, 2009 7:40 PM | Link to this
This happens to me too
By Derek
January 8, 2009 10:28 PM | Link to this
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Let’s hope the men who murdered John Henderson are caught and removed from society forever.
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By Serendipitous Stipend
January 9, 2009 8:06 AM | Link to this
This summary of crime in Sandy Springs is a symptom of a slow degradation of socio-economic opportunities, and theo-cultural evolution. I blame our churches, schools, and poor parenting. Do mothers and fathers have to get drunk every night watching tv while their kids languish? Cant you play scrabble with your kids one stinking night a week? Pay attention to them. Act delighted when they say or do anything. Let children know you appreciate their efforts.
When the boob toob was first invented, many visionaries condemned the technology because it required an idle body, an idle mind, and idle hands. People pretty much check out of town when the tv is on. They’re not there, and if anyone makes a sound, they get Shhh’d.
Ever see old film of folks in the 1930’s sitting around frowning at the radio as they listen to the bad news, and how they’d overreact with the stink-eye if someone interrupted their concentration? “Dad, the house is on fire…” (SHHHHH! idiot, it’s FDR. He’s telling us we have nothing to fear. STFU! FOOL!). “But dad the house is on fire because I set it on fire. I cant take it anymore. All you do is sit there and watch the radio. You’re obviously insane. I’m joining the army. Goodbye.” (SHHH! Moron!)
Ban television; play scrabble instead Or charades. But whatever you do, parents, dont have sex, we’ve got enough of your problems on our hands.
By Linda
January 9, 2009 2:43 PM | Link to this
I hope it was the Shell on the east side of GA400. I live on Roswell Road (toward the north end) and never knew all these things happen right on my road!
By Crime Pays Sometimes
January 9, 2009 8:53 PM | Link to this
The sad fact is that most murderers get off scott free. So do most bank robbers. So do most drug dealers.
That’s because nobody will testify. Would you? No way. Crooks have buddies who will hunt you down.
They say there are hundreds of mass murderers actively killing people at random today in the state of new jersey alone, (exit 219). Nationally, the number is in the thousands. Murderin’ scum wandering around killin’ decent folk. Think about it: your life is being in the wrong place at the wrong time and poof, you’re fish food.
Enjoy the moment. Lots of bad boys out there hunting for you. And there’s nothing any of us can do to stop it.
The best you can hope for is that God will get them.
By Dixie
January 10, 2009 5:54 AM | Link to this
I saw someone be stabbed to death, testified and watched the killer get off on a “Technicality”. The killer ended up dead about a month after the trial.
By Crime Pays Sometimes
January 10, 2009 11:26 AM | Link to this
Obama will astonish us all on inauguration day. He’ll obliterate the last refuge of conservatism by exorcising the jingoistic jangle of jungle law that possessed our foreign policy. He’ll douse Bush’s divine rights of executive privelege with a baptism of fire, (as in “you’re fired”.)
Obama will invoke the dormant phantoms of our founding fathers, unleashing the unconsummated bliss of our promised freedoms while he annulls the Cheney shotgun-marriage of church and state.
Obama will speak as our president, and our latent prophesy of justice will be fulfilled; our cautious faith in America restored; our new blushing Bride of Liberty will beckon globally to the wretched refuse of Bush Diplomacy: You are America too!
By The Corporal
January 10, 2009 2:41 PM | Link to this
POFO trolling as Crime Pays Soemtimes/serintepitous stipend, so transparent, so pathetic, not fooling anyone POFO! ‘cept maybe fred
By Old Man Ribah
January 11, 2009 9:22 AM | Link to this
Bookman asked how things would be different if McCain had won the election. It’s a stupid question because inauguration day is still days off. But here goes:
If Palin were the veep elect then al queda woulda surrendered.
If McCain were the people’s choice then the fashion would be suspenders.
If the GOP managed the win then we’d all be smelling rats here-a and there-a.
If John McCain were the president we’d have to pinch each other awake…I dubs Sara!
Sara in a towel. Sara in a dress. Sara in a bathing suit. The country in a mess.
Sara winked at me that day, I’m sure all men would say. John would start WW3, and increase our soldiers pay.
If Sara won then every phrase would end with “or terrorists win” and Rush would forever reign with his ditto-headed spin.
If McCain had won then animal rights could relax about the gerbel, and Fox News would hit us hard with stories straight from Goebels.
By Sue
January 11, 2009 11:57 AM | Link to this
POFO/OLDMAN/CRIMEPAYS/ALIAS keep your political crap off this blog. Some of us come here for enjoyment and not to be bombarded with some blowhard’s political views.
By Old Man Ribah
January 11, 2009 2:20 PM | Link to this
Eli Manning!
By Analchord
January 12, 2009 9:31 AM | Link to this
a note on marijuana: Lt. Rose reports the data as dry as he can, and when he does, we get insights into how far man has descended into the chaos.
We are grateful for his restraint.
However he does a disservice by enlisting marijuana without warning the reader: marijuana is a powerful cancer causing agent. It the worst poison out there. Everybody likes the high….once. Then you spend your life chasing that first great experience, and the brain is set up so that you can never relive it.
Dont smoke marijuana. Dont drink. Dont do nuthin. just sit there and enjoy your family. and quit slouching. shave. bathe. exercise. say a prayer silently once in a while to the greater power for the common good.
but whatever you do, dont smoke marijuana.
By Cassie
January 12, 2009 9:57 AM | Link to this
That’s right, people. All y’all quit smoking pot!
By El Bubba
January 12, 2009 11:31 AM | Link to this
A little neighbor kid was hanging around bugging me. I called him an Anal Chord and he got this real weird look on his face and didn’t say much after that, finally went home.
By Cassie
January 12, 2009 1:06 PM | Link to this
It makes one wonder (and I’m getting a bad visual here):
what, exactly, is an anal chord? Is that something ELSE I don’t want to know about, like anal bleaching?
By El Bubba
January 12, 2009 4:23 PM | Link to this
The previous post under “El Bubba” was obviously not from me. It’s another example of ANALCHORD/ALIAS/OLD MAN RIBAH taking over and ruining this post. Is anyone else sick of this individual? I’ve had it! Cassie, Cindy, Stone, I’m sorry. I tried to come back, to test the waters, but between FRED and alias the enjoyment is just gone. To see someone using my name posing as me was the last straw. The very best to everyone in the future, even FRED and ALIAS, but you’ve seen the last of me.
El Bubba
By El Bubba
January 12, 2009 5:37 PM | Link to this
I am not going to google ‘anal bleaching’. It might get me fired, and I’m self-employed.
There is only one El Bubba. I am that one.
By Furman Bisher
January 12, 2009 6:00 PM | Link to this
To the little short cop that wrote me a ticket because I couldn’t find my license:
I’m glad you’re under four feet tall.
You really shouldn’t eat so much.
Hopefully your short guy genes will be bread out, and your little short girls can grow up and do something productive with their lives.
There needs to be accountablity among these little pig cops. Are they supposed to sit and socialize with each other (for hours on end)? Are they supposed to be allowed to fly through 35mph zones without their lights on?
Enough is enough. 50 million illegal aliens, nothing but excuses from cops.
By Analchord
January 12, 2009 8:09 PM | Link to this
Would you morons be questioning what an Analyst is?
You’re being too clever. Dry up. Recede.
come back in a few months and blog again, and maybe lurkers will have forgotten that you’re morons.
By El Bubba
January 12, 2009 8:15 PM | Link to this
Sounds like you’ve had too much anal-bleach, like Michael Jackson…
By Sue
January 12, 2009 9:51 PM | Link to this
Way to go analclod!! El bubba was a righteous dude who enhanced this blog. Now you’ve run him off like you’ve done to others. Why don’t you grow up! Now you’re left posting to yourself. Does anyone doubt analclod-pofo-“elbubba”-FurmanBisher-OldManRibah-CrimePays-Seredipitous isn’t the same lonely loser? You’re ruining this blog!
By Analchord
January 13, 2009 12:06 AM | Link to this
Everybody, I’m sorry. I am pathetic. I get laughed at when I unzip my Kmart no name jeans. This one time at blogging camp, I flashed a girl. She told the cop taking the report that she didn’t even notice my winky because she was too busy laughing at my so called body.
By Stone
January 13, 2009 6:03 AM | Link to this
Dear Cindy, Cassie, Dixie, LT and all the other great people I have met on this blog. This is the first blog I ever posted on on a regular basis and I am a better person because I got to know some of you nice folks. Having witnessed the murder of a police officer and the maiming of another,(and having gone through testifying at the trial which resulted in the death penalty for the defendant) I have taken more of an interest in the lives and opinions of the police. This is what first drew me to this blog. It was the interesting people here, however, that has kept me blogging for so long.
Unfortunately, the blog has digressed to the point that I hardly recognize it anymore. Sometimes it seems that the only one posting is the same person using multiple names writing gibberish that has nothing to do with the police or crime. As much pleasure as it brings me to see y’all’s names and occasional opinions, it can’t make up for the irritation and sadness that this blog has been overrun by this immature person seemingly hell bent on destroying this once enjoyable outlet for me. Unfortunately the AJC can’t or won’t do anything about this so I must. Like El Bubba, a person we all respected, and countless others, I too must say good-bye. I hope for all the happiness and success for LT and you ladies in the future and hope you can forgive me for abandoning you, but frankly the thrill is gone and so am I….
Chris
By Ron
January 13, 2009 7:27 AM | Link to this
THANKS ALOT ANALCHORD!!! YOU JERK!!
By Political Foreskin
January 13, 2009 9:28 AM | Link to this
bwa. You have to “Howard Stern” a little to get eyes on the screen, you know?
I rule the ajc blogs, and everybody knows it. Without me, the ajc would dry up like a little mouse turd in a fruit salad. ANd you morons would eat it thinking it was a capon.
bwa.
ANd I think we need to hear more from ron. Not less, ron, but more, ron.
More Ron. More Ron!
Everybody shout: More Ron! More Ron!
MORE RON!
By Cassie
January 13, 2009 10:01 AM | Link to this
Alright, now that is just not right. First, I stop blogging entirely myself and then secondly, I come here (which is like…a cyber version of cheers, only wittier and lacking the smell of vomit) to escape and have sane conversations, and end up mocking the witless.
Maybe we should start our own blog…
Stone - hate to see you go but understand why…
By Sue
January 13, 2009 11:23 AM | Link to this
We’ll miss you Stone. This loser, this megalomaniac posting under all these names is just ruining this blog. First El Bubba and now Chris/Stone. Count me gone, too, ‘cause now there is no one left worth listening to.
By El Gringo.
January 13, 2009 1:45 PM | Link to this
OK, let me try to clear something up. I am El Bubba, or at least I used to be. I am not Anal Chord. I was originally here about a year and a half ago, maybe more.
I originally visited this site because of a concern over Taser use. Cindy and Stone may remember me.
I came back for a visit.
How about that Oakland case… They think the cop accidently shot that poor fellow beacause the cop may have thought he was using his taser instead of his firearm. Well, why would he be tasering a guy laying face down on the concrete with his hands behind his back and another cop with his knee in his back? Now you see where I am coming from.
I’m just a good citizen who likes to point out problems in our society, in the hope that we can all come up with better solutions.
I think I’ll call myself El Gringo, appologies to the other Bubba.
By Cassie
January 13, 2009 1:51 PM | Link to this
El Gringo -
If that’s so, then that guy’s career is toast. I hear that the camera film footage of the shooting is all over youtube, and that the guys is already down laying on his stomach when shot. Don’t know if that’s true or not (not a youtube kinda person).
By Slem
January 13, 2009 2:39 PM | Link to this
Well the guys career is already over as he resigned because of the incident.
By El Gringo.
January 13, 2009 4:02 PM | Link to this
I’m really not too concerned about the guy’s career. I’m more concerned with seeing his trial.
I’m wondering what becomes of the victims child.
This makes me think of an ill-used term, “innocent bystander” What is an innocent bystander? It sort of implies that there might be guilty bystanders. In this case, by all accounts, the victim was an upstanding citizen, the butcher at your grocery store. What if he was something less than upstanding? Would that make the fact that he was killed by cops more acceptable?
By Cassie
January 13, 2009 4:42 PM | Link to this
It makes me think of that Brazilian man the Brits killed on the train - they called that one “mistaken identity”. And there was another young man, mentally disturbed, also shot in the back by cops (andrew hanlon) while he was running away. The officer who shot him was later found not guilty…..
By El Gringo
January 13, 2009 5:14 PM | Link to this
OK I’m not really El Bubba. I looked up all that taser stuff from last year so as to appear to be El Bubba. SUCKERS!!!!! You bought it, I know you did. Stone would tell you so but I ran him off. Cindy would too but I ran her off.
Cassie, so tall, so lovely, so dimwitted.
I am ANALCHORD! MASTER OF THIS BLOG!! You are tools breathlessly waiting for my next post.
bwa
morons
By Dixie
January 13, 2009 5:54 PM | Link to this
yawn
By Dixie
January 13, 2009 6:16 PM | Link to this
Stone said it best.
Lt. Steve, ElBubba, Stone, Cassie, Cindy, Catlady, Sue and all the other positive folks here. The wine is losing it’s flavor. I wish you all the very best.
analchord - I’m not running off. I’m nodding off. You’ve become quite the boring, broken record.
By El Gringo
January 13, 2009 6:24 PM | Link to this
Don’t go away mad Dixie….
just go away.
By Political Foreskin
January 13, 2009 6:27 PM | Link to this
No Dixie come back, come back!!
By Analchord
January 13, 2009 6:28 PM | Link to this
Let the old hag go.
By Stone
January 13, 2009 6:31 PM | Link to this
Hush now and be nice. HE HE
By El Gringo.
January 13, 2009 8:41 PM | Link to this
Anal Chord,
Remember when I looked up a few key phrases in your posts and found your gibberish elsewhere? “Creative writing” indeed.
I’m going to tase you if you keep bugging these people, it’s not funny or creative.
By Slem
January 14, 2009 8:29 AM | Link to this
Wow its been a week or two since I read through this blog, but if this is what has been happening lately, then I can see why everyone is jumping ship.
By Slem
January 14, 2009 8:32 AM | Link to this
Wow its been a week or two since I read through this blog, but if this is what has been happening lately, then I can see why everyone is jumping ship.
By Bullseye
January 14, 2009 2:06 PM | Link to this
Voted in Atlanta’s top 100 blogs.
By Cindy
January 14, 2009 9:02 PM | Link to this
El Gringo and all of your other dumb names, just because i’m ignoring you doesn’t mean you ran me off. Get real. You rule nothing.
By QZ
January 15, 2009 9:19 AM | Link to this
Why are y’all getting so upset about a blogger? He isn’t all that offensive. Maybe the regulars need to have their own closed blog where they can talk only to each other. Otherwise, accept the fact that public blogs draws all kinds of people. Take the good with the bad and stop getting your panties in a wad.
By Regina
January 15, 2009 9:27 AM | Link to this
Stone, El Bubba…don’t leave the blog.
By Intercept
January 15, 2009 9:39 AM | Link to this
Will you four tag-team tincture swabs stfu?
morons.
By Carlos
January 15, 2009 5:43 PM | Link to this
The robber in the first section could have chosen any beer in the store and he picked … Ice House. PAH
By PJ
January 19, 2009 11:19 AM | Link to this
All these posts remind me of something…What is it?…Wait a minute…It’s coming to me…Ohhhhh, that’s right, I teach middle school!
By Professor Lou Principe
January 21, 2009 1:07 AM | Link to this
Confidential: The Principe Foundation is a 501 c 3 whose mission is to Fight Injustice. (www.ThePrincipeFoundation.org ) I am from Brooklyn, New York, taught in Florida Universities for several years and four months ago, I moved to Mobile, Alabama. Nothing has changed in Mobile, Alabama. On the surface, it has…..but corruption and discrimination still exist. I have trained police departments and have worked with federal agencies. Since moving to Mobile, I have found discrimination, a lack of integrity and the possibility of corruption in several levels of government. Fifty six percent of Black Mobile Children, living in poverty, do not go to high school. Anywhere else in the United States, it is just not acceptable. Black Pastors receive a salary from the State of Alabama to keep their Black Parishioners in line.
I was told, in front of a witness, by another Alabama State Employee, (a Pastor), that ‘I would be a target’ if I spoke about corruption. Please contact me for additional information. Sincerely, Professor Lou Principe 251-648-8290 Mobile, Alabama www.FightingInjustice.org