Saturday, April 6, 2013
Weird Police News: More of the strange incidents police officers around North Georgia encountered recently.
Click on the links below for the rest of each story. > Bad kitty? A Buford man, upset that a kitten might make his pit bull become unglued, used a tree limb to strike the feline. "I saw that little cat outside of my fence acting like he was going to antagonize my pit bull, so I grabbed a little stick and hit him with it," the man said, according to the police report. The man also said he has witnessed the cat teasing his dog, which was chained up in the backyard. The “little stick” was a tree limb more than three feet long and an inch and half thick. The kitten was taken to the vet and was expected to survive. The man was charged with animal cruelty. > They cleaned house: An Athens man told police that a man and a woman posing as a clean-…
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Weird Police News: More of the strange incidents police officers around North Georgia encountered recently.
Click on the links below for the rest of each story. > Blabbing on Facebook: An Alpharetta man, accused of stealing more than $3,000 from a Walmart cash register, bragged about the suspected thefts via Facebook. He posted a photo of him with the money and the words, “I love my job.” He is charged with stealing the money out of the till over a five-day period. A Walmart associate, who is a Facebook "friend" with the suspect, alerted authorities of the post. > “Christine” was a scammer: A Lawrenceville man answered an online credit card advertisement and was duped out of $2,000 by a woman who called herself “Christine.” The man called the number listed in a “Master Plan Card” ad he found in a Google search. “Christine” answered the call and …
Friday, March 29, 2013
Weird Police News: More of the strange incidents police officers around North Georgia encountered recently.
Click on the links below for the rest of each story. > Threatening gesture? A man said a teenager pointed a gun and pretended to fire it at him and his family at Bogan Park near Buford. The man told Gwinnett County police that while he was leaving the park, a vehicle full of teens listening to loud music pulled close. He said he saw one of the teens point a black handgun, then “wink and jerk the gun back pretending to fire it,” according to the police report. Police talked to the teen who was driving, and the teen admitted that one of the passengers did point his finger and thumb like a gun. Police wondered how someone could possibly mistake a hand gesture for a handgun. The teen wondered why the police could believe the man and not him…
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
More weird police news from around Gwinnett County and North Georgia.
Click on the links below for more info on each story > Scam alert: You’ve probably heard this one. You had a long-lost uncle in Nigeria who has passed away and left you a boat-load of money. Of course, according to an email you should delete, it’ll cost $10K to get “your” money. In his crime blog on Sandy Spring Patch, Police Officer Larry Jacobs recently wrote that AARP has issued an alert concerning the “876 Area Code Scam,” which preys on seniors with bogus promises of Jamaica lottery winnings. This one asks for $4,000. Jacobs says there are 30,000 fraudulent calls made each day from Jamaica to the U.S. > Taking matters into her own hands: A Lawrenceville-area woman decided action was needed after two armed men robbed her while she was …
