The Blotter: Character break

During Dragon Con, a 25-year-old woman reported a disturbing experience to police. She said she was attending an event at a convention center on Peachtree Street when she went missing for two or three hours, roughly between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. “When asked to explain further, she stated she was suffering from sleep depravation because she was up for 22 to 23 hours,” a cop noted. “I asked her if this has ever happened in the past. She stated she is currently on several medications for an illness. The medication prevents her from having a normal sleep pattern.”

According to the woman, after her memory lapse, she suddenly woke up in mid-conversation in the “dealer’s room” at the Dragon Con convention center. “She said her costume was ripped and she had bruises and scratches on her body,” the cop noted. According to the police report, the woman had some visible cuts, but she did not show signs of any other injuries or trauma.

The woman said the last thing she remembers before her memory lapse was purchasing a gift and then she lost track of time.

The cop filed an informational report. “I provided her with a case number and instructed her if she seeks medical attention to provide the case number to the medical staff,” the cop noted.

Putting the “con” in Dragon Con

A man who works at a local college was invited to appear on stage for an interview during a Dragon Con seminar. The man said he left his backpack on the rear of the stage and headed to the main stage for his interview. About 15 minutes later, apparently while he was on stage, the man started receiving fraud alerts on his cell phone, indicating his credit card was being used at a MARTA station.

A police officer noted, “There is a large costume event occurring in the area, and there are no cameras in the location where the backpack was stolen.” The man’s backpack contained a Samsung Galaxy tablet. No suspects.

Parking assist

In Southwest Atlanta, a 34-year-old man walked outside his apartment and noticed that all four tires were slashed and flattened on his SUV. “According to the victim, he has received two letters prior to this incident that stated he needs to learn how to park his vehicle,” a cop noted. The identity of the angry letter writer is a mystery. “Unfortunately, there are no investigative leads,” the cop concluded.

Park shark

A 33-year-old woman went to a Kirkwood park with her Frisbee team. She left her iPhone in a bag with her other belongings. At some point, she saw a group of kids near her belongings, ranging in age from 7 to 11 years old. “She attempted to entertain the kids, showing them how to throw a Frisbee and allowing them to pet her dog,” a cop noted. “She later went to check the time on her phone and discovered the phone was not there.” The woman tried texting the phone from her boyfriend’s phone that night, but no one answered her texts until the next morning, when she received a message that offered to sell her iPhone back to her.

Home stretch snafu

In Virginia-Highland, cops received a call about a very tipsy woman going door to door in an apartment building. The 27-year-old woman allegedly kept knocking on doors while trying to find her home.

“After multiple failed attempts [the woman sat] down on the stairs and passed out,” a cop noted. “When I arrived, she was asleep on the stairwell and had urinated on herself. It took approximately seven attempts to wake her. Finally, I was able to wake [the woman] and accompanied her as she made her way back to her apartment, stumbling and banging into the wall along the way.”

The cop called the apartment manager to help get the drunk woman inside her apartment. The apartment manager said the woman needed to move away from her front door so he could open it. The cop asked the drunk woman to step back and motioned her away from the door. “Leave me the fuck alone,” the woman replied and tried to push the cop away.

At this point, the cop was fed up. “I sidestepped her and quickly grabbed her wrist, rotating her right arm in a clockwise motion behind her back and placed her under arrest. The whole time during the arrest [the drunk woman] attempted to snatch her hands away from me and screamed obscenities ... she screamed at the top of her lungs approximately five times as I attempted to walk her to my vehicle.” The woman refused to walk to the patrol car. Eventually, police managed to take her to Grady detention center “due to her intoxication level.” Now she’s facing a disorderly conduct charge.

Items in the Blotter are taken from actual Atlanta police reports. The Blotter Diva compiles them and puts them into her own words.