- A potential slumber party host was caught shoplifting two Sony PlayStations, a PlayStation Portable, several games, a comforter and some pajamas from a Cobb County Sears store. He'd used a pair of pliers to break into the glass case containing the goods, police said. While being booked at the jail, police found 77 Xanax pills in his socks.
- Attracting police attention by walking down the middle of the street and blocking traffic is unwise, especially for drug dealers. The Atlanta man said "[Darn], I forgot I had those bags of weed in my pocket" before going to jail.
- A man weaving his Nissan up I-75 near Marietta was pulled over and a police officer noticed a small silver cup and spoon on the passenger seat. The man was slurring his speech and moving slowly. He was charged with driving under the influence of heroin, which may explain why some people drive the way they do in this town.
- Smash-and-grab burglars wove their way through the shattered front door of a Canton Road business with numerous hair weaves.
- A Sandy Springs woman told police her ex-boyfriend pawned her laptop, but had kindly offered to sell it back to her for $500.
- Cartersville police arrested a woman for biting her husband on Valentine's Day. The man told police his wife began masticating after he complained she was not spending enough time with him on the romantic day.
- A Netflix account may have cured the Cobb County shoplifter who visited Walmart and stuffed $424.84 of DVDs into his clothes.
- A North Fulton woman received a call from a man alleging to be her grandson, who said he was in jail in Spain. She later received a call from "the U.S. Consulate." Another man called claiming to be her grandson's lawyer. She sent him about $5,000 via Western Union. Besa ese dinero adios!
- A man who paid for sex said the service received was not satisfactory and demanded a refund, according to Sandy Springs police called to the hotel room to break up the argument. Both were arrested.
- No one went to jail, but apparently one Sandy Springs apartment-dweller thinks his partner is using witchcraft on him.
- A woman who sought help for her injuries at an Atlanta fire station became combative while being transported to Grady Memorial Hospital in an ambulance. She told an officer called to the scene that she was "drunk" because her husband, who had been sober for two years, had fallen off the wagon and punched her. She refused to press charges because her husband is a "good man."
- A Kurtz Road woman called Cobb County police to say she heard three men talking "smack" about her outside her bedroom window.
-- Reporters Mike Morris, Rhonda Cook and Alexis Stevens contributed to this column.
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