January 21, 2008
Caught on tape robbing security firm – Duh!
Roswell police report they have a clear video Jan. 12 of the man who broke into a Houze Way company in Roswell using a hammer to smash open the front windows to the business and stole a computer, monitor and digital recorder.
Given that the business was a home and government security company, it was not too surprising that the security video gives clear images of the suspect to police.
According to investigators, the company's security system was activated during the burglary, but did not seem to deter the suspect.
Armed robber takes deliverymen's orders
Roswell police report two Chinese food delivery men were robbed at gunpoint in the Concepts 21 apartment complex Jan. 8 and 10.
According to a report of the first incident, the driver went to several addresses before being robbed because the address given for the order was unoccupied. After numerous attempts to contact the purchaser, that driver was robbed of $42 worth of food outside an apartment building by a man holding an automatic weapon. The victim was not hurt.
When the original purchaser was told of the driver's situation, he reportedly acted rude and cancelled his order.
Two days later, a virtually identical situation occurred, only this time the total was slightly less.
The victims said his attacker was wearing a ski mask.
Thieves cut out leaving razors behind
Milton police are looking for two suspects who tried to steal 35 boxes of men's and women's razors worth $400 from the Publix on Ga. 9 Jan. 11.
The Publix manager told police a man and woman came into the store and started putting the razors in a bag, using the pharmacy's set up for cover.
Once discovered, the pair ran out of the store and left in a white Mercury Villager.
$15K in concrete forms stolen from truck
A representative from Southeastern Concrete Products, a Kennesaw-based company, called Alpharetta police Jan. 7 to report someone had stolen 104 concrete forms worth around $15,000 from his truck, which was parked on Rock Mill Road.
The truck was left on the lot Jan. 3. No physical evidence remained on scene, according to the incident report.
Thieves take $40K in rare Mexican coins
Alpharetta police report a home on Spring Gate Lane was burglarized Jan. 11, with thieves taking, among other valuables, $40,000 in rare Mexican coins.
The homeowners told officers the coins, along with some cash and jewelry, were inside two safes that were stolen. Three guns were also taken.
The report states the burglar most likely made entry through a bottom floor window near a child's playroom.
$10K in purses stolen from JC home
Fulton County police report a home on Virginia Pine Lane was burglarized Jan. 12 to the tune of nearly $18,000.
The victim told police that total was made up of a laptop, $3,000 in cash and a $3,000 necklace stored in a stolen safe, and five Louis Vuitton purses worth $10,000.
A neighbor reported seeing a "big framed" man on his cell phone outside the home around the time of the robbery, according to the incident report. The neighbor believes he acted as a lookout.
Broken finger results from light fight
Roswell police report a 24-year-old man had his right index finger broken by his 29-year-old roommate during a Jan. 10 altercation.
According to the victim, the fight was over a light being left on in the pair's living room. The suspect wanted it turned off, but the victim told him no. The pair began to wrestle, at which time to suspect allegedly broke his roommate's finger.
Unlicensed drivers hit each other
Forsyth County Sheriff's deputies arrested both participants in a car accident on Ga. 9 Jan. 13.
According to a report of the incident, Claudia N. Chavez, 19 of Cumming failed to yield when turning left and hit Juan J. L. Ramirez-Garcia, 23, of Cumming. When police arrived to check on the accident, deputies realized both were driving illegally and took them to jail.
Neither had a driver's license, which has been a problem among a number of Forsyth County motorists for some time.
$40K barge set adrift in Lanier
Forsyth County Sheriff's deputies report someone set a $40,000 barge adrift in Lake Lanier Jan. 11.
The owner of the barge told police someone had broken into his lake front construction site on Beaver Ruin Road and Bobbins Way, damaged some equipment and took out 60 pins that anchored the barge to two similar pieces of equipment.
The pins are valued at $80 each, but the total damage to the site is valued at just over $45,000.
The barge was last spotted floating in the lake near the mouth of Young Deer creek.
This week's strange thefts
It should go without saying that given the chance, a thief will steal anything not tied down ... and some things that are.
Forsyth County certainly has its fair share of thieves, and they consistently steal a wide range of goods.
Here are a few choice examples:
• Between 300 and 400 gallons of off-road diesel fuel was stolen Jan. 11 from a construction site near a Shiloh Road Publix. The gas, valued at $900 to $1,200, was siphoned individually from several pieces of construction equipment.
• Neighbors spotted three men stealing shingles off a house under construction on Avondale Lane Jan. 8. One of the men accused of the theft, Roberto A. Solano, 43, of Cumming, was arrrested and charged with theft, loitering and prowling and driving without a license.
All shingles were returned.
• Someone broke into a home on John Burress Road between Dec. 21 and Jan. 8 and stole, among other household items, mementoes from the life of a girl who had died of leukemia four years prior. The girl's parents, who are moving out of the house and saved her things for last, suspect a close friend of their daughter might be involved.
• New Years Day someone stole a solar panel off a van at McFarland 400 Storage, located near the two roads' intersection. Two other vans, which recently also had solar panels installed, were not harmed.
• Two Comcast cable amplifiers worth $4,000 were stolen from their locked boxes at the Hamptons subdivision Jan. 3.
The thieves cut all wires to the live amplifiers and even took the locks from their boxes.
• A burglar broke into a home on Marsha Circle in Cumming Jan. 4 through a basement dog door, breaking the chain lock that kept the door closed.
The only thing stolen, according to the homeowner, was a half gallon bottle of potato vodka worth $25.
• And finally, 117 square feet of cut stone was removed from a Lambets Way home's pool area in Alpharetta Jan. 5.
The victim told Forsyth County deputies her contractor, whom she had paid $3,000 in advance that day, had taken the stone after cashing her check.
In a subsequent phone call, the contractor told the victim he wouldn't return the stone. He said he was in a conflict with her builder and architect and still owned the rocks though she had paid him.
- www.northfulton.com
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