Topside blotter February 10 2001

A 21-year old Alpharetta woman received a phone call one morning from a former friend who said she was coming over to retrieve a book the woman had borrowed. ?When the former friend, a 19-year-old woman, arrived at the woman’s house, she began to yell obscenities as she tried to pry open the front door with an unknown object. The woman then left the scene but returned several hours later.
When the Alpharetta woman saw her former friend return, she grabbed a hammer and placed it near the door. She cracked the door and asked the woman what she wanted. The former friend kicked the door open and began to beat the Alpharetta woman. The Alpharetta woman grabbed the hammer and hit the woman over the head.
She ran upstairs and locked herself in a bedroom and called the police. The police arrived as the former friend kicked in the bedroom door. The friend was arrested for simple battery and was taken to the hospital for the laceration she suffered from being stuck with the hammer. The police allowed the woman to take her book, Understanding Psychology.
A 31-year-old Atlanta man realized his cell phone was missing from his office on Peachtree-Dunwoody Road. He called his cell phone number and a man answered. He confronted the stranger about stealing his phone, but the man just laughed and hung up.
An operations manager at a Suwanee business told police a woman was terminated from her position as a receptionist.
The complainant said the woman took the company’s credit card from the petty cash box and took a company cellular phone. The complainant said the former receptionist took the phone to a cell phone store and had service added to it. She also got two new phones and had them charged to the company’s account.
Police were dispatched to a business in reference to a theft of appliances. Upon arrival, the project manager for the business said when he arrived at the job site, he noticed the garage door was open.
He then discovered that burglar(s) had entered the store and stole a $600 range and a $400 dryer. There were no suspects at this time.
A 30-year-old Atlanta man and his roommates were selling clothes and jewelry out of their apartment on Roswell Road. Three men knocked on the door and asked if they could buy some clothes.
Once inside the apartment, the three men pulled out pistols and ordered the man and his four roommates to the floor. Then the gunmen tied all the roommates’ hands behind their backs with shoelaces they found in the apartment. The intruders also cut the phone lines.
The gunmen stole $3,000 in cash, a Playstation, two bottles of cologne and thousands of dollars in jewelry. The robbers fled out the back door when they heard another roommate walking into the apartment.
One of the victims broke free from the shoelaces and chased the gunmen, but they got away.
Neighbors called the police about loud music being played at an apartment on Hampton Hill Drive. A police officer knocked on the door and spoke to an argumentative man who reluctantly agreed to turn the music down.
As the policeman walked away, the man turned up the music even louder than before. The officer returned to the apartment and asked for the man’s identification. The man again became argumentative with the police. He either refused to answer his questions or answered them very quickly, so as to be incomprehensible.
Then, as the man lay on the couch and kicked at the officer, he told the policeman he wasn’t going anywhere. The officer told the man he was going to be charged with obstruction. When he grabbed the man’s shirt to pick him up, the man punched him.
Then another man jumped on the officer’s back and tried to grab his nightstick. The officer threw him off and the first man punched the officer again. The other man grabbed the officer’s nightstick and raised it over his head, about to strike the policeman. The officer drew his pistol and demanded that the man drop the nightstick. The man dropped the nightstick and the two assailants escaped to a bedroom, slammed the door and barricaded themselves inside.
More police officers arrived on the scene and the two men were eventually arrested for felony obstruction and violation of the noise ordinance.
Debra Warlick contributed to this report.