Sunday, November 11, 2012
Weird Police News: Our weekly top 10 strange police stories from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more details 1. Some friend. A Massachusetts man told DeKalb Police that a friend set him up to have another man rob him while he stayed at a Tucker motel. The victim let the two men in when the friend asked to borrow $10. The robber apparently forced the friends into the bathroom while he took $400 in cash, a laptop and cell phone. The "friend," a Lithonia man, then left, saying he wanted to get his cell phone back, but never returned. 2. A patient of a Dacula-area medical clinic made it clear how angry she was after she was told to reschedule an appointment for which she was late. “I’m going to blow your building up,” she said during one of the many calls she made to the clinic, according to the police report…
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Weird Police News: Our weekly top 10 strange police stories from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more details on each incident. 1. A stolen Twix bar led police on a pursuit on bicycle recently in Athens. The suspect took off running after police approached him about a report from a store employee, who said the man stole the candy bar earlier in the week. The officer hopped on his bike and chased the suspect, who stopped because he was tired. He was charged with shoplifting. 2. A dispute between a Buford couple left the husband with blood on his head, hands and face, prompting police to ask the obvious question: “I asked [the man] what happened to his head and why he was bleeding,” the officer wrote in the report. “He stated ‘That crazy woman beat me with a shovel’.” Later, the wife was asked a similar …
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
Follow the links for more details. 1. Police say revenge was the motive of a Johns Creek man who was arrested for trying to explode a homemade bomb at a business that had fired him the previous day. The thing is, the bomb never detonated. The man worked for a vendor that washed and moved cars at a south Forsyth County auto dealership. Police believe he threw the device at a vehicle early one morning, expecting it to explode on impact. It didn’t. Police used surveillance video to nab him. 2. Watkinsville police were looking to complete the story of the missing leg. A child’s prosthetic leg adorned with stickers of planets was found alongside a road by joggers. Was it thrown out by an unruly child? Left and forgotten on the hood, then fell …
Friday, June 22, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
With a sleight-of-hand and some smooth talking, two women with Eastern European accents made off with $841 in cash from the Hamilton Mill Walmart near Dacula. While checking out, one woman twice took money out of till, then gave some of it back to the clerk, saying the bills were “very pretty and she wanted to look at them because money was boring looking where she came from.” The clerk didn’t suspect a thing. In Winder, a resident told a deputy with the Barrow County Sheriff's Office that she was attacked by three females after she and one of the females were “talking smack” on Facebook. The three females allegedly punched her, knocked her to the ground and kicked her in the head. The alleged attackers said the complainant had been …
