- A Dunwoody medical office told authorities the office manager, who's supposed to make $45,000 a year, paid herself $48,000 in 2009, $63,000 in 2008, $122,000 in 2009 and $144,000 in 2010.
- The owner of a Texaco station on Memorial Drive told police an employee took off with the weekend receipts, about $20,000. The employee, who said he was quitting to go to school, did not print receipts and turned off the store's cameras.
- A Clarkston woman told police her "child's father" has stolen her mother's car for the third time. She said she was letting the man, a known drug abuser, stay in her home to "get himself together."
- A Kennesaw woman was charged with reckless conduct after firing a .38 caliber through her bedroom ceiling. Police say she was trying to make her husband, who was home at the time, think she'd committed suicide.
- A Cobb County police officer answered the phone of a woman whose ex-boyfriend had been calling her 30 times an hour. The cop told the man to lose her phone number, and to quit calling her co-workers and cussing them out.
- A southwest Atlanta man broke up with his 25-year-old girlfriend and she tossed his BBQ grill into Dewey Street. Then she smashed the potted plants in his home and tore some more out of the front yard. When approached by police officers at a nearby intersection, she said her ex is the devil and he'd killed her son. Later, at the jail, she said the arresting officer was the devil.
- A tow truck owner who had four "boots" placed on his car by a Buckhead "parking solutions" company towed his own vehicle away without paying a dime.
- A man leaving a Druid Hills Exxon was held up at gunpoint and forced to drive to his Virginia-Highland home, where he gave the gunman two watches and $198. The crook also took the man's cellphone and told him he'd kill him if he shut off the service. Then he asked for a ride to Boulevard.
- A man urinating in bushes at Hardy Ivy Park near SunTrust Plaza told police he "had to go." Police said he had to go to jail.
- A man who tried to sleep it off on a Marietta Street sidewalk was charged with "blocking pedestrian traffic."
- An Atlanta man drinking Heineken on Kenilworth Drive was charged with firing a weapon into the air. He told police he needed to be sure "it worked."
- A 41-year-old Athens burglary suspect hid in his attic when cops knocked on the door. His wife admitted her husband was hiding. While scurrying around, the non-cat burglar partially fell through the ceiling and the cops pulled him from his less-than-lofty perch.
- The granny of a Dunleith Elementary student is charged with making terroristic threats after telling the school nurse she was going to "whoop your [bleep]." The Marietta woman had been asked to bring a change of clothes for the child.
- A Marietta man who may have been planning a big birthday celebration was charged with stealing $30 in condoms and "arousal gel."
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