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Crime & punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
From the Sandy Springs police blotter:
Robbery
The clerk of Smoke 9-1-1 on Roswell Road reported an early morning robbery. A man wearing a black jacket, blue scarf and blue tennis shoes, came in and asked to see two pipes and a weight scale. While the clerk showed these items, the man pulled a handgun from his waistband; something that he was not accustomed to doing evident by the fact that the gun went off. Unfortunately he was not injured and continued with the robbery. He took a small amount of cash and a couple of pipes and a scale. (Sounds like he was hitting the pipe before the robbery too.) He left in a silver Nissan Altima driven by another male.
A man walked into a hair salon int he 200 block of Northwood Drive and pulled a gun. He told the employee to give him the money. The man forced the employee to hand over a small amount of cash. He then fled on foot.
Assault
A man reported that he left the a billards hall around 2:15 a.m. On the way to his car, someone came up and hit him in the face with a hard object, possibly a pipe. The unknown suspect fled. The victim was taken to the hospital. He said he did not have any altercations inside the bar and didn’t know why anyone would attack him.
Stolen Vehicles A man reported that someone took his silver Ford F-150 pickup truck from a parking lot in the 1100 block of Mt. Vernon Hwy. Inside the truck was the victim’s 40 caliber Glock, Model 27.
Thefts
A man reported that his roommate brought home a friend who seemed interested in his cell phone. The next day, the phone was gone. He believes the man took it.
Police were called by a man and his wife who said that while they were eating dinner, in the 1100 block of Perimeter Center West, the victim’s husband noticed a man sitting nearby, adjusting his chair as to bring him closer to her purse which was placed on another chair. (This is a No-No.) They found that her wallet was missing from the purse and later someone attempted to use the card for a $400 charge at Target. NEVER let your purse occupy the chair next to your or worse, hang it over the back of your chair so that it’s hanging on the outside of the chair behind you. Sit it on the floor between your legs with the darn thing zipped up and perhaps duct taped to the legs of the chair! Don’t make it easy for these clowns!
A man called the police after he accidentally left his phone at the Western Union office on Roswell Road. He told officers that he remembered the phone and by the time he returned to the office, an hour had passed and the phone was gone. He checked the video and saw that a black female had taken it. He called the phone and spoke to a female who said her name was Jaquita. She said she would meet him the following morning and would return the phone at the Wendy’s on Roswell Road for a $25 fee. The officer later called her and she told him that she would bring the phone back but she has yet to show.
A woman reported that while she was teaching a class, a man removed all of her cash from her purse. The man appeared to be a parent of one of the children in the class but apparently was posing as one to commit the theft.
A woman called and said she received an e-mail from Bank of America stating they had noticed unusual activity on her bank card and needed to verify it. She gave them her SSN, account number, and DOB. Later, she said she thought about it and contacted Bank of America and was told they do not solicit info that way.
Banks will NEVER solicit the customer’s personal info in this manner, especially by e-mail. Secured PIN numbers are always requested. If you receive any unsolicited e-mail from a bank or other financial institution, call that bank or company and inquire. Chances are it will save you some headaches.
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Comments
By Big O
February 17, 2009 12:36 AM | Link to this
Where was Sandy Springs PD????? Probably at a Krispy Kreme keeping them from going under…. Last week, I overheard one officer tell another that, “I bet you a dozen that I can beat you over there”…. To my surprise, after following at a distance, they were racing to Krispy Kreme for lunch.
By DJ
February 17, 2009 5:33 AM | Link to this
This is for “Big O” Now we all know your full of s**!!! Because we don’t have a Krispy Kreme in Sandy Springs……. Maybe it’s your own true desire to eat a Krispy Kreme!? Get a life and seek HELP!!! lol
DJ
By joey
February 17, 2009 7:08 AM | Link to this
Wow! What kind of idiot gives out ALL of their personal information because of some email? They deserve to lose, because they are too stupid for the planet. Sadly, they breed. I guess these are the same morons that fall for the Nigerian sacmmers.
By ESR
February 17, 2009 7:46 AM | Link to this
…and people think I am strange because I carry my legal and permitted Sig 9mm with me on my evening walks with my dogs. I’m just being pro-active.
By Matt
February 17, 2009 8:04 AM | Link to this
Big-0= It sounds like you probably disrespect officers in person as well. When their attitude is reciprocal, you cry and say they are out to get you. You seem to forget that they are humans, they are at work, I’m sure they occasionally do try to have some fun on the job, and mostly just that everyone can tell your story is an absolute fallacy. I am sure the police are not joking around when you are in within earshot; they are probably keeping an eye on you.
By Chris Broe
February 17, 2009 8:47 AM | Link to this
Do you have any idea how frightened the hair salon employee must have been? A Woman’s Hair Salon is the very last place you expect someone to pull a gun, (what with all the 38s and 44s around).
By olfart
February 17, 2009 8:52 AM | Link to this
Another Glock 27 in the hands of the street trash. I’ll bet it was left in the car because Georgia’s current restrictions on concealed carry permits SUCK. I’m a member of Georgia Carry.org and we are currently fighting to get some common sense legislation passed
By 1911A1
February 17, 2009 8:54 AM | Link to this
This is your brain.
BANG!
This is your brain on drugs.
By Chris Broe
February 17, 2009 9:19 AM | Link to this
CNN just reported that Bank of America needs another bailout. “So many people fell for the email scam that we need a bailout to cover all the stolen money less the first fifty dollars, of course. Bank of America never has to pay for the first fifty dollars of any thieving activity. You all know that right? If a thief used your Bank of Americard, you are liable for the first fifty bucks. And it must be included in the next monthly payment in toto. Also, and interest rate change would occur on the following cycle. “
The eoconomy is in freefall. The market went through 1000 point convulsions on a daily basis about six months ago, which predicted the pit we’re in now.
You should bet that this is the bottom, because if it’s not, then your money wont save you anyway. If this is not the bottom, then a new Dow Era will be upon us, and with it will come whatever a new Dow Era predicts will come. If we dont know how to classify this credit crunch bailout panic, we certainly cant predict what we’ll be in if this is not the bottom. .
How did the Soviets manage not to end the world when they were in Afghanistan? We had the Afghan War won, but Cheney refused to attack when Bush ordered him to finish off the enemy. Maybe the country needs to go through a war crimes trial to fully regain the trust in our institutions. If Cheney is not above the law, then I trust the Bank of America.
Maybe the bottom of our economy will hold when the country holds Bush and Cheney accountable. What really happened to foil Osama Bin Laden’s capture or death?
By BravesFan79
February 19, 2009 8:22 PM | Link to this
Wow political correctness is destroying this country. Now even Steve cant name the race of a perp anymore!??
How do they expect people to help catch and be on the lookout for these perps if we dont even know if there black, white or mexican!!
Face it… the sad truth is this goes on because of the NAACP would cry racism if the media ever told the TRUTH about the color of crime!!
By Chris Broe
February 19, 2009 11:45 PM | Link to this
This blog is a sociologist’s dream! Do any of you realize how immersed in the sludge of american sentimentality you are? How mired in the media myth about minorities you are?
reality speaks across the span of our 45 presidents, (I’m running in 2012 and I expect 2B#45). Lincoln saw that maybe we could put all the slaves on ships; so convinced was he that you gracious people could never accept a color gap… and he was the greatest man our Americanism ever produced! (Gen. Sherman himself said so.)
So I’m not shocked to read your comments. they’re not silly. they’re not crude. they are the reflection of myself as I look in this mirror that serves as a computer screen. I see what I am. I see what I evolved from and into. I dont know if we can avoid destroying ourselves. We probably cant. (history is quite clear on that point.)
But it still makes no sense. I’ve yet to meet the black person that I’m better than. Show me that person. Then maybe I can justify your comments and Lincoln’s solution.