Saturday, December 22, 2012
In 12 months of bizarre and remarkable occurrences in Gwinnett and Northeast Georgia, these are some of the strangest.
Patch reported on a lot of unusual encounters around Northeast Georgia in 2012. Some of the strangest are listed here. What do you think was the weirdest story of 2012? Let us know in the comments below the article. Man Clad Only in Underwear Causes Disturbance at Buford Hotel A Buford man had more questions than answers for the police officers attempting to determine how he ended up in a hotel lobby nearly naked and bleeding from several scratches and cuts. Dacula Brothers Injured, Arrested as Result of Drunken Melee Two Dacula brothers landed in jail after a drunken fight left both men bloodied and battered. Winder Man Calls 911 to Report Being Invisible The deputy was told the caller wanted a ride to the hospital "so he could get more …
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Strange crime news powered by the police reporting from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.
Click on the links to get details on each story 1 It’s campaign-sign-stealing season. A Johns Creek told police her Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan sign was taken from her yard. And not only that, another campaign sign was lifted from a nearby intersection. In Athens, numerous campaign signs were reported stolen in the Five Points area of town. Athens-Clarke County Police also were told car-magnet signs for State House candidate Carter Kessler were stolen while campaigners were soliciting votes. 2. Perhaps not wanting to wait in line for an iPhone, a robber took three of them from a Norcross man who had advertised the phones on Craigslist. The suspect responded to the ad, which offered the iPhones for $350 each, and agreed to meet the man in …
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more details 1. A Peeping Tom used a stolen ladder in an attempt to see into a second-story window recently in the Stone Mountain area. Police responded after the woman resident called 911 to report seeing a man peering into her upstairs bedroom. The man fled, but police found the ladder he used leaning up against the house. The ladder ended up being stolen from a neighbor’s yard a week before the incident. 2. You know a relationship is over when an ex uses bleach in anger. Two such incidents were reported recently in the Norcross area. One involved an ex-boyfriend, who doused his former girlfriend’s clothes and other belongings with bleach. The girlfriend also told police that during a recent abusive argument…
Friday, August 17, 2012
Unusual police stories from Northeast Georgia.
Click on the links below for more details 1. When will stoners ever learn? Using air freshener to cover up the smell of weed never works. A Gwinnett County Police officer making a traffic stop on I-85 smelled overwhelming odors of marijuana and air freshener coming from a rental car driven by a Stone Mountain woman, with a South Carolina man in the passenger seat. The officer wrote in his report: “I noticed there were two clip-on air fresheners stuck inside the air vents. This stood out to me because this was an Enterprise rental car and the average motoring public does not add air fresheners to a rental car.” The officer later found a UPS box with a PlayStation 3 box inside. Inside that box were three pounds of pot. 2. When a man was …
