A 33-year-old man wearing a corset and stockings strolled into a Midtown grocery store, selected a single red apple, and then stood in line to pay for his fruit. Another customer reportedly asked the man to cover up. Outraged, the man unleashed some choice words and was asked to leave the store. The man said he would calm down. His calm reprieve didn't last long, though. Suddenly, the man... | more...
A 24-year-old man and his friend requested an Uber driver pick them up at a gay club in Midtown to take them home. During the ride, the 24-year-old jokingly told the Uber driver he was really cute. According to the police report, the driver told the man to "shut the fuck up," and alledgedly pulled out a gun and aimed it at the 24-year-old.
The 24-year-old remained quiet for the rest of the...
A 21-year-old female clerk recently had a rough day at a Little Five Points boutique. A woman with one leg reportedly barged into the boutique and got in the clerk's face. At one point, the one-legged woman left the boutique and started yelling at the clerk through the store window. The woman eventually stormed back into the boutique and knocked accessories off the counter and reportedly... | more...
A pork chop purchase went awry on Ponce de Leon Avenue. A man reeking of booze walked into a grocery store with only one item on his list: pork chops. According to the store manager, the man yelled at a female cashier because she was did not bag his pork chops properly, and then the man bagged the chops himself. The manager asked the man to calm down, and offered to help him with the pork... | more...
Cops received a call about a masked man dressed in all black, who was reportedly scaring people on the Beltline in Old Fourth Ward. The masked man had a pumpkin tattoo on his left upper arm and was riding a skateboard. A cop found the masked man sitting on top of an underpass on Willoughby Way. "Once he saw us, I told him to come down," the cop noted. "He then got up and ran." The masked man,... | more...
Outside a West End shopping mall, a cop saw a black car stopped with a twitchy male driver inside "The driver had a very hostile demeanor toward me," the cop noted. "I asked him why he was so agitated. He advised that he felt that he was being harassed and that he didn't do anything wrong."
The driver, a 34-year-old man from Douglasville, admitted to consuming alcoholic beverages before...
A war between neighbors that had been brewing for two years finally bubbled over at a Midtown condominium building. The opponents: Two male neighbors who live above/below each other. The lower-floor neighbor, a 46-year-old man, claimed "the ceiling light fixture in his bathroom was leaking a brown fluid — suspected methamphetamine " from his neighbors' upstairs unit, a cop noted.
A man was recently "chanting really loud" and holding signs that read "Cross Movement Clues," "Be Dead to Sin," and "Turn from Sin" outside a local retail store. The 39-year-old man also asked customers to give him money. Security guards asked the man to leave several times, but he refused. Then the man walked inside the store and went to Customer Service to return an item. Once the return... | more...
Outside an Atlanta elementary school, a 21-year-old woman said someone broke into her car and stole her duffle bag, which contained her "blue sparkle pageant heels." Her pageant high heels are worth $100.
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At Atlantic Station, a man and woman walked into a grocery store and allegedly tried to steal $1,100 worth of nail polish. The suspects put the fingernail polish...
A pair of live-in boyfriends had a spat over dinner at their home in South Atlanta. The first boyfriend, 26, told police the argument started in the kitchen while he was cooking chicken and collard greens. The second boyfriend was shirtless, standing bare-chested in the kitchen. The first boyfriend said, "I started tasting the food that he had already put on the plate. He got upset and told me... | more...
In Old Fourth Ward, a 32-year-old man returned home and found a woman standing near the rear of his house. "As he exited his vehicle, the female went into the brush and either grabbed something from, or threw something to, the ground," an officer wrote. "She then started running at him and screaming in a 'high pitched, almost animal-like' manner. The female shoved him and started to scratch him... | more...