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The Blotter: Mama drama

A mother-son chat recently went awry inside the mother’s home. The mother said her son went berserk when she mentioned one of his ex-girlfriends. “She stated that her son began to say that he hated everyone and everything,” a cop noted in the police report. The son alledgedly grabbed his mother, leaving a small cut on her right hand.

The startled mom called police — against her son’s wishes. The son hopped into his mother’s car, put it in reverse, and slammed it into the garage repeatedly. The son rammed the car over and over, damaging the front and rear end. Next, the son drove onto “a raised flower bed that was about three feet high,” the cop noted. The son then began to break flowerpots and let the dog loose. The mom stated that her son then went into his house and started throwing furniture and breaking paintings.

The mother asked cops to restrain her irate son. “While talking to [the mother], I heard a thud coming from the house,” the cop noted. “I saw [the son] pick up a wooden desk. He attempted to throw it at me, breaking a glass, but the desk did not fit through the window. [The son] then threw a porcelain figurine at my head, breaking another window. This is when I called for immediate backup.”

This was no teenage rage or an adolescent outburst. The petulant son is a 67-year-old grown man and, yes, he still lives at home with his mother.

More officers arrived. The angry son was on the second floor looking out a window. “We asked the son to come outside,” a cop noted.

“Hell no. Fuck you, pig!” the son yelled, hurling a black object at a cop’s head. Eventually, police went to the second floor and found the son in a bathroom holding a knife in his hand. Police ordered him to drop his weapon. “Shoot me! I don’t care!” the son yelled, and then tossed the knife at an officer’s leg.

During arrest, the angry 67-year-old son struggled as police put him inside a patrol car. The son offered some parting words to his elderly mother. “You lying bitch,” the son screamed at his mother. “You like this power trip. You like to be in control? What other lies can you tell?”

After the arrest, firefighters arrived on the scene to secure the mother’s smoldering car, “but were unable to due to a yellow jacket’s nest in front of the car.”

Screw yourself

Police received a call about a pickup truck being broken into in Downtown. “Upon my arrival, I saw a male in the front passenger side of a black [truck],” the reporting officer noted. “Get out of the vehicle and get on the ground!” the cop ordered, drawing his gun. The suspect, wearing a green T-shirt and denim shorts, leapt out of the truck, jumped a nearby fence, and ran across the street behind a building. The cop hopped into his patrol car and followed, noting that he “saw the man on top of the building. I again gave my commands, ‘Get down on the ground!’” The cop circled the location and found the male lying on the ground. “The male seemed [to have] hurt his leg from when he dropped from the building,” the cop noted. “I gave the command, ‘Don’t move!’”

The cop called medics because the suspect appeared to be in pain. “I thought he might have broken his leg,” the cop recalled. “The male was stating that he broke into the vehicle and he did it with a screwdriver.”

The suspect added, “I had to break into that truck to feed my CRACK addiction!!!” (Repeated exclamation points courtesy of the reporting officer.)

Police found a red-and-black screwdriver sitting in the truck’s passenger seat. A window was busted, but nothing looked out of place inside the truck. The suspect, a 41-year-old man, went to jail and was charged with entering an auto.

Costly stumble

A 22-year-old man carrying drugs tried to run from police but his clumsiness led to his capture. “In his attempt to elude police, the man fell to the ground,” the reporting officer noted. Two cops yelled for the suspect to stop or they were going use their Taser. The man kept running to the rear of parking lot and in between buildings. “The male was trying to run up a hill, but slipt [sic] on pine stray [sic],” the reporting officer noted. A police sergeant ran up the same hill “only to land on the males’ back and was able to hold onto the male by the neck lock, until [another officer] arrived and handcuffed the suspect.”

The police sergeant said that the suspect tossed a baggie of crack cocaine to the ground as he tried to run uphill. Also, the sergeant advised “the male’s head hit the sidewalk as he lost his footing trying to go up the hill.” In addition to suspected crack, the man also had “26 small baggies of marijuana packaged in yellow glassine baggies ... along with $9 cash ... and nine pills of Oxycodone in an orange-and-white bottle without a label” — all stuffed in his pocket. The suspect “had minor lacerations to his legs and face due to him falling several times while he was fleeing,” the cop noted. The suspect went to Grady Memorial Hospital for further evaluation — then jail.

Friend or foe?

In West End, a 33-year-old man said he invited four friends over to his house for a small get-together. During the party, the man said he went to the bathroom and left the door cracked open. While using bathroom, the man could see his silver handgun (worth $600) sitting on his kitchen table. “While still in the bathroom, he witnessed his friend ... take the firearm and put it in the waste band [sic] of his blue jeans,” a cop noted. The friend bolted from the party and jumped into his car.

The gun was loaded with 11 rounds. The friend/thief may face retribution if he ever returns to his own home. The 33-year-old said the friend who stole his gun lives across the street.

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






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