Police Blotter: Man Beat Up, Robbed, Left In Boxers

Monday, February 04, 2008

Police said they found a man on Fagan Street standing in his boxer shorts, saying he had been beat up.

Orlandis Gay said he was walking from Club Defense when six black males approached him and began attacking him.

He said they beat him with sticks, punched him with their fists and kicked him.

He said they took all his clothes before leaving.

Police said the victim was missing several teeth and have minor injuries on various parts of his body.

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Edward Nathaniel Hill of Pierce Avenue said he heard a noise and looked out to see two black males in their 30s in his yard. He said they were pulling his son's trailer by hand.

He said they began to attach it to a maroon Ford full-size pickup truck, then jumped in the vehicle and began to spin off.

He said in their haste they did not get the trailer latched, and it came loose as they left his yard.

Mr. Hill said it is the second time people in that same truck have tried to steal the trailer, which is valued at $3,000.

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Marc Brower said his Ford Explorer was parked at 7430 Shallowford Road.

He said he came out to find a window had been knocked out and the vehicle had been ransacked.

He said his wallet, containing $600 as well as three company checks to him totaling $54,000, was gone.

A witness reported seeing a white male get in a white truck and speed off.

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Roger Williams said he was parked at Lowe's on Gunbarrel Road when someone knocked out a window of his 1994 Geo Metro.

He said two new sets of drill bits were taken.

A white male driving a full-size truck with an extended cab was seen near the Geo.

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Robin Mosier, manager of Home Goods at Hamilton Place, said her wallet was stolen from her office.

A white male was seen in the rear stockroom. He said he had been looking for a restroom.

Ms. Mosier said she learned that her credit card was quickly used to ring up $2,000 in purchases at Wal-Mart and $85 at a gas station.

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Micah Cook, who lives in the 800 block of Oak Street, said he heard a loud noise outside.

He looked out to see a heavy-set black male wearing a big dark jacket and a stocking cap running away.

He found that a window on his vehicle had been knocked out.

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Caroline Von Cannon of Kingsley Court said she began corresponding with a man named Michael Tom on the Internet in early January.

She said he asked if he could send her flowers, and a potted plant soon arrived.

She said she then began to receive boxes containing men's clothing, rings, shoes, Motorola phones and Apple IPhones. She was asked to forward the items to an address in Ghana.

Ms. Von Cannon turned them over to city police instead.


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