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Police (Off)Beat | Blind justice
- A blind man caught stealing $50 worth of groceries from an adjoining duplex told a DeKalb magistrate he did it because his neighbor's girlfriend owed him $25 in drugs and $25 in sex.
- A teen caught using a rock to beat on a screwdriver placed in the ignition of a car in northwest Atlanta told police he did it because he was "tired of walking."
- A DeKalb man sought a warrant against his pregnant girlfriend, who slapped him after she found out she had driven him to meet his other pregnant girlfriend at the obstetrician's office.
- A man who brought home the wrong sandwich from Burger King was locked out on the balcony of his Peachtree Valley Road apartment by an angry girlfriend.
- A 19-year-old Tucker woman who apologized for being a getaway driver on Facebook was linked to the robbery of a Stone Mountain home at gunpoint.
- A Cobb County man was charged with making terroristic threats after loudly stating "I'll whip your [bleep]!" to a Kennestone Hospital nurse.
- A DeKalb man used his real driver's license to take a new car for a test drive and never took it back. He was arrested in the car a week later.
- An Atlanta woman living on Church Street told police her ex-husband, who she thinks smokes crack, keeps dropping by wearing a loaded semi-automatic pistol on his hip. She said she became more troubled by his behavior after receiving several one-word text messages from him reading "Ammo," "Death," "Kill" and "Gun."
- A woman driving a Ford F-150 that went "airborne" and landed atop a cement barrier on Marietta Boulevard told police she'd gone through a month's worth of prescription muscle relaxers in a day because she was partying with friends.
- A Charleston, S.C., teen stole a DeKalb County school bus and "drove it through curbs and ditches at a high rate of speed" during a police chase.
- A Savannah man pulled over for weaving in southwest Atlanta had an open 24-ounce can of Olde English, oxycodone pills, heroin, marijuana, esctacy and a $10 hooker in his car.
- On Bonnie Lane in Atlanta, a man fired a gun into the air to break up children fighting over a toy.
- A 30-year-old man who allowed an 18-year-old woman to sit in his car to charge her cell phone while he chatted with friends "about his music" in Rose Circle Park got to walk home after she drove off in his 2004 Pontiac. She returned to the park an hour later but could not find the car owner, so she gave the keys to complete strangers.
- A volunteer at a Midtown puppetry center was seen dragging a cash collection box into the men's room to "clean it." He cleaned it out all right.
- On Fletcher Street in Atlanta, three Parks Middle School students walking home had a gun pulled on them by a man who asked "Why you looking at my girl?"
- An upset Smyrna woman spray painted her man's shirts while they were was hanging in a closet.
- A female employee of a public storage facility on Bolton Road took the week's cash receipts and "moved back home to Philadelphia."
About the Author
George Mathis has worked in the AJC newsroom since 1999 in a variety of roles including editing local news, blogger and columnist.
