The Blotter January 25 2006

A PASTOR said the church sign was stolen from his church on Metropolitan Parkway. The sign read “House of Prayer,” and it was bolted to the roof. The sign has been stolen several times before, and the pastor said he has trouble with his church members in regard to stealing.

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ONE DAY, a man was walking down the street on his way to church. A man with gold teeth walked up and asked him to sell his leather coat. No, the man said. The man with gold teeth said he would take the leather coat. He pulled out a gun, hit the man, and grabbed his leather coat and bag. The man with gold teeth fled before police arrived.

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A MAN said a male acquaintance kicked in the door of his apartment on Summit North Drive. So the man filed a police report. Two days later, the man was asleep in his apartment when the acquaintance returned and again kicked in the door. “I’m gonna fuck you up,” the acquaintance said. The man called police again, because now he’s afraid for his safety. He said the acquaintance sometimes dresses up in women’s clothes, and possibly wore women’s clothes when he kicked in the door.

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ONE MORNING, a middle-aged woman found a golf ball in the driveway of her home on Cascade Terrace. She took the ball and added it to her collection of all the golf balls that have landed on her property. The woman said she collected a total of 450 golf balls last summer. The next morning, the woman discovered that her front porch window was broken. It is the seventh time that her window has been broken as a result of someone hitting/throwing a golf ball, she said. She added that other neighbors are experiencing damage from golf balls as well.

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A 41-YEAR-OLD WOMAN broke off her engagement to her fiance, an Alpharetta man. After she called off the wedding, he left 35 minutes of voice mail messages on her cell phone. The woman called police on her land line. As she talked to the officer, her ex-fiance called on her cell phone. Via speakerphone, the officer heard what the ex-fiance said. He threatened to expose the woman via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and said that she would lose everything, and he would sue her through her ex-husband for longevity, and that she would not be around to do what she did to him to anyone else.

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The officer told the woman to turn off her cell phone and get a protective order.

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A 22-YEAR-OLD WOMAN dated a man who works at Lowe’s for about two months. During that time, she let him borrow $875 for his motorcycle and cell phone. When the man failed to pay her back, she called his house. The man’s wife answered the phone. (And noooooooooo, the man never said he was married.) The 22-year-old told the wife all about their relationship. Later, the man called her and said, “Quit calling my house. Don’t call my house anymore. I’m going to send someone to do something to you and you won’t like it.”

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A LANDLORD said he evicted a tenant from his apartment on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The tenant is a middle-aged man who is mute. Later that week, the tenant returned and used a ceramic toilet bowl lid to smash the landlord’s car windows. The tenant fled before police arrived.

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A MAN IN HIS 20S parked his Chevrolet Monte Carlo on Peachtree Road. When he returned, he said, the car was unlocked and the trunk was popped. Someone stole his CD player and his fake gold teeth implants, the man said. The fake gold teeth implants are valued at $350.

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A TEACHER went to the bank and withdrew $8,000 of his money. He put the cash in a small blue pouch and left it unattended in the school library from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (The teacher, age 59, works at an elementary school on Richardson Street.) The pouch containing $8,000 was stolen from the school library.

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AN ATLANTA POLICE OFFICER WROTE, “Over a period of a year or more, my ASP baton has been subject to cold, wet, hot, warm weather while attached to my gunbelt. The rubber handle swole [sic] up so that I have difficulty taking the [baton] in and out of its sheath. I talked to [a police sergeant] at the Atlanta Police Academy at 180 Southside Pky. He suggested that I take the [baton] to property control at [City Hall East] to have another officer look at it. The officer at property suggested that I make this report and turn the ASP in for another. No fingerprints, photos, nor other witnesses.”

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AN 86-YEAR-OLD WOMAN was at a grocery store on Peachtree Road. A slim woman walked up and showed her a pouch filled with cash and what she said were government bonds. The slim woman said she found the pouch in the parking lot. After they went to a bank, the slim woman said the total amount was worth more than $8.5 million and she has a friend who is an international financial investor and he would help them. A few days later, the slim woman said her friend would invest the money outside the country to avoid taxes, customs, etc. But they needed some upfront money from the elderly woman to get the bonds out of the country. In return, the elderly woman would get $3.5 million for her participation.

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The elderly woman gave them $773,081. The investigation continues.

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