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2008-06-26  CRIME | Police Blotter
All Crime Reports are compiled from public records. Neither the law enforcement agencies nor this newspaper implies any guilt by publishing these names. None of the persons listed has been convicted of the alleged crimes.
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June 30, 2008
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Cell tower theft nets $60K
An employee of Sprint called Alpharetta police June 19 and reported someone had stolen two "channel cards" worth $60,000 from a cell phone tower on North Fulton Industrial Boulevard.
The caller told investigators the box in which the cards were located appeared to have been opened by a key. The last maintenance check on the tower was in March, according to the report.
Inventive suspect uses tools at hand
Milton police arrested a 48-year-old Milton woman June 18 at the Wal-Mart on Windward Parkway after store personnel discovered she'd allegedly used a suitcase off the shelf to store stolen items.
According to a report of the incident, Ewa K. Janulewicz allegedly took a large suitcase and stocked it full of shoes, deli meat, over the counter medicine and a smaller piece of luggage.
She reportedly just tried to pay for the suitcase, and none of the stuff inside. In addition, it appeared Janulewicz allegedly took the price tag off a smaller piece of luggage and affixed it to the larger suitcase. Perhaps she went one step too far.
She was charged with misdemeanor shoplifting.
Suspects steal $1,800 puppy
Two men stole a white Maltese puppy valued at $1,800 June 18 from the Petland on Windward Parkway.
The store manager said the men took the dog while he was in the back of the store getting them another puppy for it to play with. The men broke the front door on their way out.
Their car tag was registered to a Stone Mountain address, reported police.
Couple goes to jail for fighting in park
Johns Creek police arrested both a 35-year-old Loganville man and his 36-year-old Johns Creek girlfriend June 21 for battery after they both admitted to fighting each other near the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area on Barnwell Road.
According to the incident report, the pair were with another man at the girlfriend's Forest Run Trace home. A fight broke out over some suggestive photos of the woman and the fact that she was apparently dating both men at the same time.
The couple left, leaving the other man behind. As they drove away, they apparently began hitting and kicking each other while the vehicle was speeding down the road. Eventually the fight escalated to the point where the boyfriend wrecked the car at the Chattahoochee River park. Police found the boyfriend near the entrance to the park, bleeding from the face. The girlfriend was found asleep in the wrecked car.
Both were taken to Doraville jail.
DUI school target of break-in
Roswell police reported June 19 that someone broke into a business on Holcomb Bridge Road that teaches a course for those accused of DUI.
An instructor of the business said the suspect threw a rock through a side window and entered the business. Nothing was missing, she said, but it appeared that the suspect went through a DUI information card log box and a file cabinet containing DUI case files.
Out-of-towner floods hotel rooms
Alpharetta police reported a 33-year-old man in town from Skokie Ill., flooded his hotel room and five others June 24 when he left the water on in the tub while drunk.
The incident occurred at the Embassy Suites Hotel on North Point Parkway. According to a police report, when officers arrived to check out the situation, they found the man naked, swaying from side to side, in his room with the door open.
The man reportedly admitted to drinking between four and six drinks in the hotel bar and forgetting to turn his tub off. He said it ran for about two solid hours.
Hotel personnel declined to press charges.
Fraudulent account paid on time, at least
An Adagio Drive man called Alpharetta police June 20 after learning someone had fraudulently opened an account in his name with Lexus Financial Services for $35,000.
The good news is payments on the false account, opened in 2006, were up to date.
The victim said the financial institution's records showed he was a cosigner on the account with a woman with his same last name. However, he'd never heard of her.
The victim said he is not aware of any other types of fraud to his accounts.
Ghoulish theives steal cemetery vases
Someone stole 56 bronze/copper flower vases from burial plots at the Sawnee View Gardens cemetery during the early morning of June 16 — Fathers Day — reported Forsyth Sheriff's deputies.
The vases were worth more than $7,700 total. Thieves periodically target these vases to hawk later for scrap metal.
A caretaker at the cemetery, which is on Dahlonega Highway in Cumming, said the thief had to have hit the morning of Father's Day. That's because no one had reported any vases missing, and the holiday brings in a multitude of visitors wishing to pay their respects.
The report lists no witnesses nor suspects.
$21K in belongings stolen from apartment
A woman living in the Preston Pointe apartments called Forsyth deputies June 20 after someone stole $21,000 worth of her things from her home.
The woman said she was preparing to go to Florida when she noticed her $6,000 set of Louis Vuitton suitcases were missing. They were filled with a $1,500, five-diamond and 14-carat gold ring, hundreds of dollars in dresses and shoes and a digital camera.
That's not all, though. The thief also apparently stole a $1,800 set of porcelain Hildegarde Gunzel dolls and a $2,000 set of Ping golf clubs that weren't in suitcases.
The victim said when she left her apartment on the day in question, the front door was locked. There were no signs of forced entry.
Thieves take materials off setting wall
A construction supervisor with a Cumming-based wall building company called Forsyth deputies June 16 and reported someone had stolen more than $11,000 worth of aluminum concrete forms off a freshly poured wall.
The incident occurred at a job site in the Whitfield subdivision in Cumming. The supervisor said workers had poured the wall and let it set the day before. When they returned the next morning, 23 8-foot by 3-foot and 12 6-foot by 3-foot aluminum forms, along with some pins, wedges and brackets used to level the structure, were missing.
There were no witnesses nor suspects.
Publix manager gets iced down
A manager of the Publix on Peachtree Parkway in Suwanee called Forsyth deputies June 17 after a 24-year-old deli employee threw a cup of ice in his face.
Apparently the employee had just cleaned the deli slicer and refused to serve a patron, so the manager went to talk with him about his customer service skills.
This conversation became heated and vulgar, so the manager went to apologize to a nearby customer who heard the interaction. When he returned, the employee allegedly threw the ice in his face.
The manager didn't want to press charges.
Maybe it's time for separate 'fridges
Cumming police were called to a Kelly Mill Road house June 17 after two roommates reportedly got into a fight.
According to the incident report, the men first got into an argument over who drank the other's beer.
It then got physical, sending one man to Northside Hospital-Forsyth.
Neither chose to press charges.
A third roommate said the two get in a fight over something new every weekend.
Cocaine found at the Goodwill store
Employees of Goodwill on Amberley Way in Cumming called Forsyth Sheriff's deputies June 19 after they discovered a small bag of cocaine in the store.
According to the incident report, the bag was stuck in an open pack of cigarettes found on the floor. No one knew to whom the cigarettes belonged.
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