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The Blotter August 12 2004



At a government building
on Springdale Road, workers found a syringe in an area where children were playing. “It appeared the syringe may be filled with insulin,” an officer wrote. The government building where the syringe was found is part of the state Department of Family and Children Services. The syringe was put in a biohazard container and taken away.

An officer
was looking for people loitering in the parking lot of a building on Moreland Avenue. A man walked up and said, “Officer, I’m not going to lie to you — I’m down here looking for some pussy.” The officer asked for the man’s name, and he gave it. The officer performed a computer check and discovered that the man was wanted for drug possession in Fulton County. The man went to jail.

A woman said her boyfriend was mad because she didn’t get him anything for his birthday. The boyfriend demanded that she give him money since she didn’t buy a gift. The woman said she didn’t have any cash on her, but she had $10 at her mother’s house. The boyfriend threatened to hurt her if she did not drive him to her mother’s house and get the money. He threatened to kill her if she called police. The woman said he hit her face while they were driving on the highway. Her face was still red when police arrived. The boyfriend, age 24, was jailed.

An officer responded to a call about a suspicious person at an apartment on Lindbergh Drive. He met with a 34-year-old man, who lived in the apartment. The man said he believed someone had drugged him and tampered with his computer. The man said he believed a male acquaintance might have entered his apartment the night before and added some malicious code to his computer, causing the computer to malfunction and giving other people access to his bank records. The man said the acquaintance might have messed with his computer a week ago, as well. The officer checked the apartment and found no signs of forced entry. Medics arrived and checked on the man. They said the man appeared to be suffering from HIV-related dementia.

An officer saw a 61-year-old woman sitting in the middle of Metropolitan Parkway. “It appeared that [the woman] was attempting to cross the street by sliding on her behind across the roadway,” the officer wrote. Several cars barely missed hitting the woman. The woman, who was drunk, went to jail for disorderly conduct.

A woman wearing nothing but a swimsuit was standing in the middle of Metropolitan Parkway. When an officer got close, the woman pretended to pet an attack dog behind a fence at the corner. Then she tried to get into a stopped car — but the passenger door was locked. The woman was arrested, handcuffed and put in the patrol car. The woman said two prostitutes on the corner told her to leave because she was drawing attention to them. She said her race was the only reason the officer arrested her. She also said she was on the streets to support her daughters, one of whom is a federal marshal. She said she had secret tapes in her friend’s car that would show that the officer only locks up girls of her race — and her case would be dismissed because of her secret tapes.

The woman, age 39, hails from Kalamazoo, Mich.

Police found a bag hanging on the fence of a gas station on Spring Street. The bag contained two toy guns, a knife with what appeared to be dried blood, deodorant and a pair of white socks.

On Moreland Avenue, a neighbor said a 55-year-old man was upset because the water in his house was turned off. So the 55-year-old started breaking his own sink.

The neighbor pressed charges against the 55-year-old for acting in a reckless manner.

One afternoon, a man was found lying in the emergency lane of I-75, near Moores Mill Road. “What are you doing,” an officer asked. “Trying to catch a ride to Atlanta,” the man replied. The man, age 50 and homeless, had long blond hair and a full beard. Also, the man was completely sober. He was jailed for pedestrian violations.

A 33-year-old man walked into a convenience store on Boulevard and demanded to be paid the money he said a store employee owed him. The clerk on duty said that particular employee wasn’t working right now. The man grabbed four boxes of incense and said he would take the incense instead of the money owed him. After a struggle, the man was jailed.

A man was masturbating at the corner of Peachtree Place and Spring Street. “His pants were partially down as he was masturbating while facing oncoming traffic,” the officer wrote. “He did not notice me as he continued.” The man, age 26, was arrested for public indecency.

A woman took her husband to work at 5:20 a.m. and returned to their home on Waynes Street by 5:50 a.m. Upon her return, she found a checkbook tucked between her front door and screen door. The checkbook contained 11 checks — and she didn’t know the person’s name on it. There were no items missing from her house.

All items in The Blotter are taken from actual police reports and are public record.






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