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The Blotter: Losing faith
In Edgewood neighborhood, a 40-year-old woman said she put her gold Jesus and other expensive jewelry on her kitchen counter, near the door, right before she took her medicine and went to bed. When she woke up, she said her front door was damaged and her precious gold Jesus was gone, along with her 10-karat gold diamond necklace, and two diamond rings.
Police were a bit suspicious of her story. “The inner door frame was busted and there were no shoe prints on the exterior side of the door,” a cop noted. “The door itself did not appear to obtain any significant damage. The locks appeared to be intact as well. There were no pry marks on the door’s exterior.”
The woman did not explain why she left gold Jesus and pricy jewelry on the kitchen counter near the door. “As we tried to investigate further, the woman became very emotional and was unable to answer many more questions,” the cop concluded.
Hotel Hell, Part I
At a swank Midtown hotel on Peachtree Street, an employee went down to the hotel basement, during the course of performing his job. The employee walked around a corner, and suddenly a man “charged him and threw a bottle of wine into the wall, breaking the bottle,” a cop reported. “[The man] also had a bottle of aerosol cleaner he was spraying at the hotel employee.”
The man was not trying to rob the hotel — he was a hotel guest who was just very, very wasted. Police arrived and cuffed the man, age 26. A cop noted, “When I asked him how he got to the basement of the hotel he stated he didn’t know, he just found himself there.” The bottle of wine he smashed was worth $30. The hotel employee said he had a slight headache from the aerosol spray.
Also, about an hour before the drunk man’s wine-and-aerosol melee, he got booted from several nightclubs on Crescent Avenue for his unruly behavior.
Hotel Hell, Part II
A Stone Mountain woman took her sons to a hotel in downtown Atlanta on Spring Street. Inside their hotel room, “they noticed a small green bag of what appeared to be suspected meth,” a cop reported. The suspected meth was reportedly taped to a fire alarm in the hotel room. The mother said other fire detectors were all covered with similar small clear baggies. The mother contacted hotel management and they put the family in a different hotel room. Then the mother called 911. Police took the suspected methamphetamine baggies away.
Hotel Hell, Part III
A tourist had unusual items swiped her from hotel room adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta. Her missing stuff includes: an orange, a round World War II bag with a Japanese print, and a bag of jewelry (four David Yurman rings and 15 bracelets and necklaces).
Play It Safe
Near Six Flags Over Georgia, a 36-year-old man said he left his apartment for about three hours. When he returned, he realized he’d been robbed and called police. The man said “someone had used his mini BBQ grill to bust out the patio glass to his apartment to make entry and leave the same way,” a cop reported. “According to the victim, the only thing that was taken was a safe that is built like a briefcase that was laying on his bed.” The safe contained no more than $400 cash.
Police went to the man’s apartment, where the cop spotted “one small set of footprints left by the doorway [believed] to belong to either an adolescent or a small female.”
The cop added: “The man denies any involvement in illegal activities and says no one to his knowledge knows he owns a safe. The apartment also had two guns in the bedroom that were in plain view in the closet, a Wii game and a flatscreen TV in the living room, a moped in the hallway and another flatscreen TV in the bedroom — all in plain view. But the suspect bypassed all that just to get upstairs and take only the briefcase/safe.”
Items in the Blotter are taken from actual Atlanta police reports. The Blotter Diva compiles them and puts them into her own words.