The Blotter March 08 2006

A MAN was at a gas station on Cleveland Avenue. He went to pump No. 7. When he looked on the ground, he saw a suspected marijuana plant sitting there. He decided to call 911 and report the plant. Police arrived and took the suspected marijuana plant to the police evidence room.

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ON TAFT STREET, a 71-year-old woman called police and said her car — a green Jaguar — had been vandalized. The windshield was cracked and her Jaguar had scratches all over it. Also, the elderly woman said, there were paw prints on the top of her Jaguar, like someone walked a dog on her car. According to the police report, the elderly woman mentioned “a dispute with neighbors involving dogs.” No further information.

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AROUND 2 A.M., an officer saw a suspicious white Toyota pickup truck on Euclid Avenue. The engine was running, but the car was parked. A man and woman were passed out inside. Five open beers were on the ground. The officer knocked on the door, trying to wake up the people. Eventually, the man woke up “in a disarray and unknowing where he was,” the officer wrote. Then the officer shook the woman (the driver of the Toyota) several times. Eventually, she woke up. The officer asked for her name and if she knew where she was. The woman answered, “Hi, how are you?” The officer asked the woman to recite the alphabet. “Isn’t the snow pretty?” she replied. The officer wrote, “I asked her again, and she wasn’t able to complete a sentence due to getting distracted by the snow.” The woman, who lives in Alpharetta, was arrested for DUI.

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A WOMAN said someone broke into her rental property, a house on Beecher Street. The glass on the front door was broken, but the front door was locked. A rear window was broken and the window was wide open. Nothing was missing from the house. But somehow the woman’s refrigerator was moved to the front porch. No suspects.

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AT HARTSFIELD-JACKSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, a woman was riding the shuttle bus when she started having chest pains. The woman said she was having trouble breathing, there was a pain in her neck, and her left arm was numb. The officer wrote, “She further stated she had taken a liquid fat burner, ‘Redline,’ on an empty stomach this morning.” The woman, who was alert and talking, was taken to South Fulton Medical Center.

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A WOMAN FROM COLUMBUS said she and some friends went to a nightclub on Auburn Avenue to celebrate her 22nd birthday. A friend of her friends — a guy nicknamed Dread — said he left his ID in the woman’s car. So she gave her car keys to Dread so he could get his ID. Some time elapsed, yet Dread didn’t return to the nightclub. So the woman went outside to look for her car, a 2005 silver Toyota Camry. The car was gone. The woman got a ride to Dread’s house and waited for him. Around 7 a.m., Dread returned home. He tossed the car keys at the woman and said he wrecked her car, which was now at a wrecker service. Nothing further.

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A NEW JERSEY MAN bid on eBay for a Porsche SUV. He won, with a bid of $48,350. He corresponded with a Jonesboro man about picking up the Porsche. (They talked only via phone and e-mail.) The New Jersey man tried to put a PayPal deposit into the Jonesboro man’s bank account, but the deposit did not go through.

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So the Jonesboro man told him to meet another guy at Lenox Square, in the Macy’s parking lot, to get the Porsche. The New Jersey man went to Lenox Square with three cashier’s checks totaling $48,350. He gave the man the checks, and took possession of the Porsche. The New Jersey man failed to notice that the vehicle identification number on this Porsche didn’t match the VIN listed on the Porsche on eBay.

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Next, the New Jersey man took his Porsche to a dealership on Roswell Road for a maintenance check. There, he was informed that his Porsche was a stolen car. A Roswell police detective arrived and took possession of the Porsche.

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The New Jersey man tried to stop payment on his cashier’s checks. He managed to get back about $29,000.

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A MAN WAS FLAGGING DOWN and blocking cars at the intersection of Rockwell Street and Metropolitan Parkway. Police stopped the man, a known prostitute. The man said he was asking for money from the drivers of passing cars. The man said if drivers would give him a dollar, he would show them “some ass.” The man, age 37, was arrested for soliciting rides.

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AROUND 3 A.M., a man was swinging a yellow-handled iron pick. He had just broken the window of a house on North Avenue. Seeing this, a police officer approached the man. The man said he was evicted from the house a few days ago and if he couldn’t have the house, nobody could. The man, age 44, was arrested for trespassing.

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A MAN who works for a construction firm said that during the night, someone burned two outhouses at a construction site on Carter Street. The outhouses were completely burned to the ground. The outhouses are valued at $800 each.

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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.