Police Blotter: Thefts From Construction Sites

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Hoyt Dill, owner of United Homes, Inc., said 38 sheets of plywood were stolen from a job site on E. 19th Street.

He said there have been several other thefts at the same site.

Gary Ball of Tower Construction Company said he returned to a job site on Chamberlain Avenue and found that several light fixtures worth $350 had been stolen before they could be installed.

Someone pried open a side window to get inside the house.

Clemmisa Harris said as she was leaving her apartment at Alpine Villas on Mountain Creek Road a black male came up behind her and demanded her wallet.

She said she gave up the wallet, which had her driver's license and two bank cards.

Patrick Goodall said he was driving down Shallowford Road when a green Ford Escort was driving slow and throwing things out the window.

He said he passed the Escort. When he came to a stop sign at Igou Gap and Morris Hill Road, a white female got out of the Escort with a bat. He said he started to drive off, but the woman hit the trunk of his car with the bat, denting the trunk.

Mr. Goodall said he followed the vehicle to Fuller Road, where he lost it.

Amber Hindman and her father, Carl Long, said Jeremy Hindman became angry in an incident on Hixson Pike.

They said he grabbed the rear view mirror in Ms. Hindman's van and broke it off, then broke the cupholder. He then took a cellphone and broke it, they reported.

A woman on Sunnyside Drive said she put her mother in a home for care. She returned to her mother's house to check on it and went into a locked cabinet to get her mother's money that she had saved over the years.

The money was gone, though nothing else in the house was missing.

Jeri Walton of Bailey Avenue said her pink Miami Sun 3 wheeler bike was stolen out of her front yard.

The chain had been cut off the bike.

A man on Maplewood Avenue said he believes workers from a Lookout Valley consruction company working at his house stole his coin collection.

It included silver and gold eagles and Morgan coins that were in a locked box in the bedroom.

A man on E. 11th Street said he was drinking beer while watching a football game and became confused over how many lithium pills he had taken.

The man was checked out and released from a hospital after a short stay.


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