Police Blotter: Sunbather On Gravel Road Tired Of Being Bothered; $8,000 In Purses Stolen From Hamilton Place Store

  • Thursday, July 25, 2019

Officers checked the 7300 block of Lee Highway regarding a suspicious subject on an abandoned gravel driveway near the U-haul center. Officers discovered a man sun bathing on the gravel road. Officers checked him for warrants and suggested that he "relocate to possibly another city due to he was tired of being harassed." The sun bather left the area on a white mountain bike.

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A woman on Blackford Street said sometime during the night, an unknown party entered their unlocked 1982 Chevy S-10 and stole her handicap placard.

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A woman told police she is concerned for her daughter dating a youth she doesn't like. She said she has heard from other sources that he drinks and drives and owns firearms. Police knew the boyfriend and two officers agreed to check him out. They went to his residence where he showed police his AR-15 style rifle which he recently bought as well as the documentation for it. He said he  recently came off probation, and checked with his probation officer to make sure it was okay for him to purchase a rifle now. Police said they were invited into the boyfriend's house and "did not observe any illegal substances or materials." 

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An employee at a store at 2100 Hamilton Place Blvd. said an unknown male and female grabbed approximately $8,000 worth of purses and left the store in a silver VW with Georgia tags. Staff did have video footage of the man involved, but not the female.

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A woman on Lightfoot Mill Road said early that morning, around 3:30, she heard fireworks. She went outside and did not see anyone or anything. She returned back to sleep. That morning she woke up and noticed that a bullet round had gone through the front of her home, through a second wall, through a glass door, a window, and hit the rear door. The lead had hit the door and bounced off. Across the street the officer found two shell casings. The first casing was to a .9mm and the second a .40 mm. The size of the hole indicated that it was the .40mm that did the damage, the officer concluded. Both the woman and her granddaughter were in the house at the time the incident occurred. 

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An employee at a store on Riverfront Parkway said she received what looked like an email from her boss instructing her to purchase nine different Ebay gift cards with the company American Express card, which is in her boss's name, and send the money to a client via text message. The employee complied and later checked with her boss, who then told her that she had not sent the email. That is when the employee realized that she had been scammed. She said the email had been sent from address: Secures@Earthlink.net. 

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