First Slice 9/23/15: Buckhead investor faces jail for housing code violations

Buckhead real estate investor Rick Warren faces up to six months in jail after being convicted Tuesday on two counts of city housing code violations. Warren, who Mayor Kasim Reed once called a “predator,” is accused of not properly maintaing property he owns in English Avenue.
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? After some delay, Atlanta has released an audit of the new streetcar which reveals, among other things, on-staff techs weren’t fully trained to repair the $99 million transit line’s vehicles. The audit also claims the streetcar is insufficiently staffed. In other streetcar news, Atlanta police posted a surveillance video of a “person of interest” in the recent streetcar graffiti incident milling about the maintenance depot.
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? “Those were not our boys that did that to us,” says the mother of the Gwinnett County brothers who allegedly tried to beat, stab, and suffocate their parents on Sept. 5.  “We forgive our sons, we love them unconditionally,” says the father of the accused attackers. 
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? The Atlanta Braves are thinking about plopping down a new spring-training location in Pinellas County, Fla. The plan entails transforming a 240-acre landfill to accommodate the Braves and maybe another baseball club. 
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? After a reported “crime uptick” in Buckhead, police have joined forces with a property management company to gain access to 235 surveillance camera around Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza.
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? Atlanta police are investigating how an argument on Spellman Street ended with one person dead.
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? Are you ready for all the glowstickin’, blacklightin’, molly-poppin’, raver-candy action that will be TomorrowWorld 2015?