posted December 17, 2007
A resident of Atlanta Drive said two men came to his house and asked if they could get scrap metal from a house two doors down. He said he told them it was not his house and he could not give his permission.
He said the men started walking that way anyway.
Another resident said he saw the pair loading items from the house into their vehicle.
Police said their vehicle on Wisdom Street near police headquarters. There were three windows, two doors and a storm window stacked in the rear.
Robert Hamilton and Billy Ray Poe Jr. claimed they had permission to get the windows.
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On Cypress Street Court, Octavia Rutledge said her ex-boyfriend, Terry Maurice Marshall, knocked the air conditioning unit out and was able to push his way inside her apartment while she was sleeping.
She said he ran upstairs, grabbed her cellphone, and began hitting her in the legs.
Ms. Rutledge said he cursed her and said, "I'll catch you outside later. I'll kill you." Then he fled.
Police said she had knots on her legs from where she had been hit.
The incident was viewed by her children, ages 3 and 5, who were in the bed with her.
Warrants were taken out against Marshall.
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At a business on Calhoun Avenue, four aluminum doors were stolen from a dump truck at a business.
The thieves got in through a gaping hole in the fence.
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The rear glass was broken at P&P Produce on E. 11th Street, but nothing was taken apparently.
It will cost $300 to fix the damage.
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There was a report of a black male trying to get in the closed Yum Yum Store on Dodds Avenue.
It turned out to be a black female, who "looked just like a male."
She claimed she was trying to help someone inside in a wheelchair.
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There was a report of a truck parked by I-24 and men throwing items taken from the nearby closed U.S. Pipe and Foundry into the truck after climbing a freeway fence.
Police did an extensive search, but did not find anyone at that location.
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Bessie Durden of Tunnel Boulevard came home and found her house ransacked. The back door had been kicked in.
Items taken were valued at least at $1,080, including her flat screen TV and jewelry.
Also taken were two pictures of her granddaughter.
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Melvin Lackey of 7th Avenue said he had a call from a neighbor about a possible theft.
He found the back door of his truck wide open. He was missing $950 in tools.
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A man on Newell Avenue said he is tired of his wife taking money from him.
Police said the solution is filing for divorce.
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A woman on Forestdale Lane said her husband began acting crazy soon after she got home. She said he got naked and went outside.
She was able to get him back in the house, then he started slapping her.
Police came to the door and a naked man answered. Officers got him to put on some pants.
The wife had red marks on her face and back from the slapping, police said.
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