Police Blotter: Landscaper Suffers Loss Of Trailer With $7,000 Worth Of Equipment

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

A landscaper said his utility trailer was stolen from in front of his business at 2260 Gunbarrel Road. It had $7,000 worth of construction equipment on it.

Ba Duong said he decided to leave the white box-style trailer at the business instead of bringing it home for the night. It was gone the next morning.

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In an altercation on S. Watkins Street, Tamekia Reed "freely admitted" to police that she was the aggressor.

It happened upstairs at the apartment of her child's father, Dathan Mitchell.

Ms. Reed said she started punching Mr. Mitchell.

She acknowledged that she also destroyed his cellphone and threw bricks through the front and rear windows on his 1979 Chevrolet El Camino.

She was charged with assault and vandalism.

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A cashier at a store at 5478 Highway 153 said she was walking back toward the front of the store when she saw a man go behind the counter.

She said he left with the drawer from the cash register. It had about $300 in it.

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Shelia Ross of Portland Street said three young black males were in her front yard and she told them to leave.

She said one picked up a bike and threw it through a window of the vacant duplex next door.

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A man returned to his car on Shallowford Road and found that a window had been broken out and the GPS taken.

A witness said he saw a black male break the window, then leave in a white car - possibly a Lincoln Town Car.

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Arzetta Grayes also found a window broken on her Ford Explorer. It had been parked on Hickory Street.

Her purse was taken.

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A worker at the Olive Garden restaurant on Highway 153 returned to find items missing from his black Honda, which he left unlocked.

He is missing his Sony car stereo, speakers and two pairs of climbing shoes.


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