The Gwinnett crime roundup is a regular look at crime of note in the county. Information is gleaned from arrest warrants, police incident reports and jail records. It consists of allegations only.
Robbery by pizza snatching
On July 1, Gwinnett County police issued warrants charging two local teenagers with robbery by sudden snatching. The stolen goods included pizza, chicken wings and soda.
According to the warrant, the teens — an 18-year-old from Norcross and a 19-year-old from Lawrenceville — ordered the food from a local Pizza Hut on the afternoon of June 26.
“Upon the Pizza Hut worker arriving to the [Lawrenceville] address,” documents said, “the males snatched the food from the Pizza Hut worker’s vehicle and fled the scene.”
Robbery by sudden snatching is a felony.
26 pot plants
On July 1, Gwinnett County police issued warrants charging a 48-year-old Suwanee man with manufacturing marijuana. According to warrants, officers found “a marijuana grow of 26 plants” inside the man’s home on Suwanee Bend Drive.
Manufacturing marijuana is a felony.
Counterfeit cash at Wendy’s
On June 29, Snellville police issued warrants accusing a 19-year-old man of using counterfeit cash at a local fast food drive-thru.
According to the warrant, the man visited the Wendy’s at 1918 Scenic Highway and used a counterfeit $20 bill to purchase food. He got “valid U.S. currency” as change — then went through the drive-thru twice more.
He was charged with first-degree forgery, a felony.
Driving on a suspended license — and crashing into surveillance cameras
On June 29, Norcross police issued arrest warrants accusing a 20-year-old Acworth woman of driving on a suspended license and fleeing the scene of a crash — where she hit a pole holding two of the city’s surveillance cameras.
According to the warrants, the woman and her Chevrolet Silverado went off the road near the intersection of Medlock Bridge Road and Spalding Drive, “striking a wooden power pole, sheering it off at its base” and “knocking down” two cameras valued at nearly $12,000 before driving off.
Charges filed against the woman included criminal damage to property, driving on a suspended license, failure to maintain lane and “duty to notify upon striking fixture.”
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