The Blotter: Violet rage

A woman said she returned to her Westside home and noticed the front door was spray-painted purple. The woman walked around her home and thought nothing else was amiss. Then she saw her newly purple rear window. Nothing else was disturbed — just a purple front door and rear window. The woman said had no clue who would want to vandalize her home, and no idea why the color purple was involved.

Rent bender

A woman said a man in a Scream Halloween mask robbed her and her landlord at gunpoint while they were standing near the mailbox outside her home. The woman said the alleged robbery happened mere moments after she handed her rent money to the landlord, who put the money in her purse. The masked robber stole the landlord's purse. When a police officer arrived, the landlord was long gone and the woman appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.

The woman "expressed her concerns that the robbery was set up" by her landlord, the cop noted. The woman said she got a "very strange feeling" while she was leaving the house to go to her car.

In a separate interview, the landlord told police the woman acted "very strange" in the moments before the alleged robbery happened. Both the landlord and the woman told police that a man in a Scream mask stole the rent money. The only difference in landlord's story: She said the suspect snatched her keys and threw the keys to the ground before disappearing.

Stone roller

A 58-year-old New York man said he stopped for gas at a convenience store on Jonesboro Road while he was driving to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The New York man said that while he pumped gas, a strange guy walked up and punched him in the face. "Where is the bag?" the suspect asked as he chased the New York man around his car. The suspect allegedly grabbed the victim's bag from the car, ran to a white van, and sped away.

The New York man said his stolen bag contained the following items: $30,000 worth of raw diamonds, an iPad, and two blank checkbooks. The New York man said he usually buys diamonds in bulk from an Atlanta dealer and flies the diamonds back to the Big Apple. However, he doesn't know the Atlanta diamond dealer's last name. No suspects.

Mystery communique

In Old Fourth Ward, a police van was covered in graffiti on Willoughby Way. The Vandals' message? Still unclear. An officer said he "observed markings made in a marker-like substance on the right side of the van in characters I could not read."

Flower power

A 26-year-old woman said she Ubered back to her apartment in Peachtree Hills late at night. When she walked inside, she realized someone had stolen her Macbook Pro computer and messed with her dried-flower arrangement. The woman kept a vase of dried flowers on her bedroom dresser. Apparently, the thief placed one dried flower in the toilet and stuck another dried flower in the pull cord of her blinds. Police dusted the flower vase and pulled several partial fingerprints.

You give love a bad name

In South Atlanta, a woman delivering Valentine's Day treats stopped her car on Cleveland Avenue. She said a bunch of juveniles reportedly surrounded her car. "The juveniles then went into the vehicle and grabbed approximately two dozen assorted Valentine's gift baskets and approximately five balloons." Then, one suspect wearing a sweatshirt with "New York" written on the front, reached into the car and alledgedly punched the woman's face. All the juveniles fled on foot with the Valentine's loot.

Good deed gone bad

A 28-year-old man said he picked up a homeless guy in Snellville and drove him to Little Five Points to get food. "I brought a homeless kid to Little Five Points to get some pizza," the man recalled. "I went in to order some pizza, he came in with me. I had my key fob with me. I went into the restaurant, ordered the pizza, went to the restroom, and when I came back out, my key fob was gone, the kid ... was gone as well. I sat down. It took me about 15 minutes to realize what had happened. When I did realize my key fob [was gone], I came out to the parking lot and realized my car was gone as well." Police are looking for the man's car.

Cracked up

A police officer said he was riding in the passenger seat in a police patrol car when he "tapped the inside of the windshield (upper right corner) with my right hand, and caused a small star-like crack in the glass," the officer noted. "After hitting a few bumps in the road, the crack spread out in all directions."

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