posted January 29, 2007
Police said a woman made threats in front of students and teachers at a school on 13th Avenue.
They said Margaceita Favors came in around 8 a.m. and said she was going to "jack up" someone. She said she was going to "hurt someone" when she returned.
The principal said she was sending Ms. Favors a certified letter saying she was no longer welcome on school property.
Debra Thomas of Oak Street said she let her son, Dustin Walker, borrow her $20,000 Nissan Altima.
The son told her he let "a Tony Pickett" borrow it and he had not brought it back. The son said he did not know where the car got to.
The manager of Starbucks at the Read House told police of an employee theft.
He said it was found that an employee credited $1,945 to his own credit card, then quit the job before he was found out.
At a business at 321 McBrien Road, an intruder broke out glass panes on a side sunroom and got inside. The damage was $500.
The thief got a laptop and briefcase worth $800 as well as some checks.
A man on Haywood Avenue left the keys to his 1997 Toyota Forerunner in the middle console and the doors unlocked.
The sales rep said the real loss was the $256,000 worth of Capstone Peak medical implants that were inside the vehicle. They are used as "spreaders" in spine surgery.
Marquina Daniels of W. Main Street Courts said a woman she knows only as Brittany knocked on the door of her apartment, then attacked her when she opened the door. She said she was cut by Brittany's fingernails.
She said the problem arose because she is dating "Boogaloo" - the father of Brittany's baby.
A clerk at the Conoco on Rossville Boulevard said a white male came in and helped himself to a $50 bill that was taped to a window.
Trouble was, the clerk said, the bill was counterfeit.
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