The Blotter July 29 2000

A female bank teller at a bank on Peachtree Street saw a man, about 25-years-old, enter the bank from the Georgia Pacific Building. The man was wearing a plaid shirt and khaki pants. “Can I help you?” asked the bank teller. ?
?The man approached the counter and handed her a piece of paper that had “DON’T PANIC” written on it in capital letters. ?
?The bank teller closed her money drawer and told another bank teller that the man was trying to rob her. ?
?Then, the man left the bank, exiting out the front door.

Police got a call about a fight on Boulevard regarding “someone was going to get a gun and shoot someone,” according to the police report. Upon arrival, the officer spoke with the caller, a 27-year-old heavyset woman. ?
?She said she went to the home of her friend, a 45-year-old man, on Boulevard. The suspect, a thirtysomething muscular man wearing a Fubu T-shirt, was invited into the 45-year-old’s home for some liquor drinks. ?
?As time went on, the suspect started telling the woman that he was a pimp and he wanted to be her pimp. ?
?She told him she didn’t want a pimp, and he got angry. The suspect walked into the kitchen, grabbed a skillet and struck the woman across the head.

The suspect told the 45-year-old friend that he would hit him with the skillet if he interfered. The suspect raised the skillet, and the 45-year-old backed off and called 911. ?
?The suspect then stole a green Nextel pager, $40 and a New Mexico state identification card from the apartment. Then, the suspect fled. ?
?The woman was treated for minor injuries.

On Kennesaw Avenue, an officer saw a 34-year-old man stooped down behind a residence. When the officer approached the man, he noticed the man was holding a glass pipe in his right hand. In his left hand, he had a small plastic bag containing residue, and “a plastic bag with 20 small cotton balls resembling crack rocks,” the officer wrote in his report. ?
?The man threw the glass pipe into the woods and tried to hide the bags underneath some leaves. ?
?The man put up his hands and said, “I don’t have no dope. It’s only flex. That means not real drugs, officer. I didn’t want you to see my pipe so I threw it. Yeah, these cotton balls, I was just gonna flex somebody as soon as I can figure out how to make these cotton balls work.” ?
?The man was arrested for possession/intent to distribute “counterfeit” drugs.

A witness saw a 27-year-old man with a VCR walking down Windsor Street when a heavyset man got out of a green car and started beating the 27-year-old with a thick, wooden bat. The witness said the 27-year-old tried to show the heavyset man his receipt for the VCR he was carrying. The witness heard the heavyset man say, “Where did you get this VCR. I’m sick of people breaking in and stealing.”?
?The witness saw the heavyset man strike the 27-year-old several times in the back and side. Then, the heavyset man got into his green car and drove away. ?
?Police were called. The officer noted that the 27-year-old is physically challenged and was unable to speak clearly.

__A 38-year-old woman on Sylvan Circle said her neighbor, a 35-year-old man, was upset because his daughter told him that she knew her father had been involved sexually with the 38-year-old woman. He did not want his daughter to know this.He then hit the 38-year-old woman in the face with a cell phone and left the scene.

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