An officer was flagged down by the manager at the Kanku’s at 3604 Brainerd Road, saying someone drove off with a fuel nozzle and hose. The vehicle was last seen traveling down Brainerd Road towards the tunnels. A plate number was unable to be seen on the vehicle. The $500 nozzle was taken from pump #6. The officer searched the area and was unable to locate either the vehicle or the nozzle.
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A female resident of the Hamilton Inn at 2717 Rossville Blvd. said she heard a loud noise and looked out of her window. She saw an unidentified person carrying her glass coffee table worth $30 from the storage room next to her room. Police observed some damage to the padlocking mechanism of the door caused by the suspect kicking the door open.
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A female resident of the Jaycee Towers, which is undergoing an extensive renovation, said she is very worried that she is going to be kicked out of her apartment by the new management. She said she had lived there for the past 15 years and did not want to be forced out. She said several older people have been given $1,000 and told to leave.
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At the Family Dollar at 2038 S Willow St., the manager said several items were taken from the stockroom. After looking at the video the suspect is a black male, six feet tall, weighing 200 pounds, heavy set, wearing a ball cap and sunglasses, a blue shirt and blue plaid shorts. The suspect took two LG phones and two headsets.
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A Publix employee at the 400 N Market St. store said that he works in the meat department and noticed Cathy Bryson in the store. He said that he is very familiar with Ms. Bryson because she has been trespassed and has stolen from the store numerous times. He said that Ms. Bryson started picking up steaks and he told her to put them down and get out of the store. He said that Ms. Bryson put the meats down and quickly headed towards the door. He said he was following her out of the store when she stopped and grabbed two packages of batteries. He said he told Ms. Bryson to put the batteries back and she ran out of the store and across the street. The value of the two packs of batteries is $39.31. The responding officer was familiar with Ms. Bryson and her long history of shoplifting. The officer also spoke to one of the cashiers, who gave the same story as the meat department worker.
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An officer on routine patrol at 4th Avenue observed a female and a male soliciting from the roadway at the I-24W off ramp. They identified themselves as Melissa Miller and Craig Siniard. Both parties were checked through NCIC for warrants, but none were found. Upon searching Ms. Miller's person and purse, the officer found multiple burned up copper pieces (commonly associated with a crack pipe) both on her person and in her purse. Ms. Miller stated that she used to smoke crack but had not smoked in two weeks. Due to the fact that Ms. Miller did not have any other type of paraphernalia at this time, the officer issued them a warning to not be soliciting any further or they would be cited.
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Fred Kelly said he picked up three white females and a white male on 27th Street and was taking them to their friend's house. He drove from 27th Street to Shallowford Road and stopped at the Shell gas station at 7000 Shallowford. He went inside the store and left his keys in the ignition. When he came out of the store he found out his vehicle was gone. He then immediately ran over to the Waffle House at 7047 Amin Dr. and called police. He was driving a black 2004 Toyota Highlander. He did not witness their direction of travel. He did state that he had picked these people up before but did not know what their names were or any other information about them other than they might be homeless.
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An employee of Old Navy at Hamilton Place showed an officer video surveillance footage of a black male, who had entered the store. The suspect walked through the store for a few minutes. He then walked to the front of the store, looked around, and grabbed 10 coats off of a sales rack, then ran out of the store without making an attempt to stop at the sales counter.