The Blotter May 03 2006

A FEMALE IMPERSONATOR walked into the Ralph Lauren store in Buckhead. He has long, black hair and wore a blue tank top. He grabbed two Ralph Lauren zebra-striped purses (one worth $3,250; the other worth $1,950). Plus, he grabbed a Ralph Lauren tan leather purse (worth $1,495). Then, he left the store without paying.

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Four days later, a store employee reported the theft to an off-duty officer.

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The officer asked, “Why didn’t you call police earlier?” The employee said he had procedures to go through with his company.

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A 25-YEAR-OLD WOMAN works at a Blockbuster. She was about to make the store deposit at a bank on Ponce de Leon Avenue. She saw a man peek around the building and look at her. The man approached her with his hand in his pocket, as if he had a gun. “Don’t run, just give me the drop,” the man said. She gave the man the deposit bag, and he ran away.

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According to the police report, the woman said “... the male ran and did not have a limp or anything like that. [The woman] also states the male did not run fast.”

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In addition to working at Blockbuster, the woman attends Georgia State University. Police asked her if she ever discussed her job with anyone from school.

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No, she said. But she believes the man who took the deposit might be someone from her race relations class at Georgia State. She doesn’t know his name, and she isn’t sure, but she said if she saw the guy again, she would recognize him.

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The woman agreed to look at the bank’s videotapes to see if she could recognize the man.

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A HOMELESS MAN was sleeping in his car on Cleveland Avenue. It was about 2:30 a.m. Someone knocked on his car window and said two young men just took the homeless man’s keys. The homeless man got out of his car and tried to catch the men who took his keys. The other two men ran around in a circle — then they got into the homeless man’s car and started it. The homeless man reached into the car, trying to grab the keys. The two men drove away — but the homeless man hung on to the car and was dragged about 50 yards before he fell off.

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The homeless man was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment. His car, a 2002 red Saturn, was reported as stolen.

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A BOYFRIEND AND GIRLFRIEND who live together in an apartment on Stanton Road got into a fight. The girlfriend described it as a fuss about her not showing affection. She said her boyfriend tried to choke her and threw a lighted candle at her. Then, he grabbed her keys and drove away in her car (a light blue Crown Victoria).

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According to the police officer’s written report, the boyfriend has a “goat tee” for facial hair.

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AN OFFICER was sent to an apartment on University Avenue to resolve a dispute. A 61-year-old woman said she returned home this morning and found several women in her apartment. She told them to leave and they did. The 80-year-old man who also lives there got mad that the other women left. So he started arguing with the 61-year-old woman and her female friend. Then, the 80-year-old man hit the woman’s friend in the head with a half-full bottle of Glenmore Gin.

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Police spoke with the 80-year-old man. He said, “I hit a woman in the mouth, I didn’t do anything wrong.”

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The officer wrote, “He then stated, ‘There is nothing wrong with hitting a woman in his own home.’” The 80-year-old man was taken to jail.

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A 40-YEAR-OLD WOMAN was standing in the parking lot of the Taco Bell on Ponce de Leon Avenue. She lifted her shirt three times, exposing her breasts. Police found a baggie of suspected heroin on her. She said she’d snorted heroin earlier that morning. The woman has a tattoo of the word “Fritz” on her arm. She went to jail.

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A 40-YEAR-OLD WOMAN was staying at the home of a 65-year-old man for a bit. While she was there, another man said he wanted her out of the house. The woman said she is a guest of the 65-year-old man, and she wasn’t going anywhere. Then, the man pushed her and grabbed a pot of boiling water from the stove. According to the officer’s written report, the man said, “Bitch, I’ll pour this skoaling water on your ass.” Police arrived and took the man to jail.

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ON ELBRIDGE DRIVE, a middle-aged man said his wife accused him of cheating. While they were arguing, she got into her gold car and floored the gas pedal, hitting and dragging him down the driveway. The man called police. He was missing skin on his left cheek, right hand, back, and shoulders, and his hip was in pain. But he didn’t want medical attention. Police and the man drove around looking for the wife, but they couldn’t find her.

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AT THE CORNER of Allene and Dill avenues, an officer saw a man remove an item from a trashcan and put it in his pocket. The officer stopped and asked him what he took out of the trash. The man said he took some white tissue paper with tobacco in it. Then, the man said he doesn’t do drugs, but he does smoke marijuana. The officer asked, “Do you have any marijuana on you now?” The man said, “I have some in the crack of my butt and there might be some in my pocket.” After a brief scuffle, the officer arrested the man and took him to jail.

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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.