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THE BLOTTER: ‘You’re a mean one, 2020’ The Blotter
Monday December 7, 2020 12:48 pm EST
And other stories of life in the ATL from the past year
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THE BLOTTER: Speed Racer, Deuce! The Blotter
Sunday November 8, 2020 02:59 pm EST
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THE BLOTTER: Stupid phone call of the month The Blotter
Friday October 9, 2020 04:58 pm EDT
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THE BLOTTER: Virtual school peek-a-boo The Blotter
Friday September 4, 2020 11:45 am EDT
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THE BLOTTER: Mask Meltdown The Blotter
Wednesday August 5, 2020 05:08 pm EDT
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THE BLOTTER: Animals in the street and roaming The Blotter
Tuesday June 30, 2020 11:57 am EDT
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THE BLOTTER: The ‘coughing bandit’ strikes The Blotter
Friday May 1, 2020 12:05 am EDT
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THE BLOTTER: Wiped out! The Blotter
Friday April 10, 2020 04:05 pm EDT
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THE BLOTTER: Mommie Dearest The Blotter
Monday March 2, 2020 01:18 pm EST
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THE BLOTTER: You break it, you stole it The Blotter
Tuesday February 4, 2020 02:03 pm EST
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THE BLOTTER: Resolutions for the hell of it The Blotter
Wednesday January 1, 2020 10:33 am EST
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THE BLOTTER: The Joker on the run The Blotter
Tuesday December 3, 2019 05:19 pm EST
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THE BLOTTER: Three bottles of vodka and an AR The Blotter
Monday November 4, 2019 02:04 pm EST
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THE BLOTTER: Making America more great The Blotter
Monday September 30, 2019 12:49 pm EDT
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THE BLOTTER: What’s up, Doc? The Blotter
Thursday September 5, 2019 10:43 am EDT
Sleeping it off in a bed of carrots
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THE BLOTTER: Tampon tirade The Blotter
Thursday August 1, 2019 04:47 pm EDT
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THE BLOTTER: Twerking videos and pepper spray News, News Features, The Blotter
Friday July 5, 2019 10:14 am EDT
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THE BLOTTER: 'Beyonce’ in a pink lace nightgown News, News Features, The Blotter
Friday May 3, 2019 12:11 pm EDT
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The Blotter The Blotter
Tuesday January 1, 2019 05:30 pm EST
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The Blotter: Ceasar Mitchell's car stolen Homepage, The Blotter
Tuesday December 12, 2017 03:50 pm EST
His Audi was left unlocked and running
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The Blotter: I thought we were friends The Blotter
Monday December 4, 2017 06:45 pm EST
Is there nothing sacred about making pals in chat rooms anymore?
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The Blotter: Lovers' misdemeanor The Blotter
Thursday November 30, 2017 07:04 pm EST
Plus, an allegedly boozy bartender charged with a DUI
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The Blotter: Mercedes-Benz Stadium brawl The Blotter
Monday November 20, 2017 05:14 pm EST
Plus, 'No, officer; I was just urinating in public!'
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The Blotter: Clumsy smuggler The Blotter
Thursday November 16, 2017 05:56 pm EST
Plus, 'If you're not going to be with me, you can't be with no one else.'
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The Blotter: Misplaced Mercedes The Blotter
Monday November 13, 2017 06:08 pm EST
And please unload your guns before using the bathroom
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The Blotter: Interview with a bank robber The Blotter
Friday November 10, 2017 05:41 pm EST
Plus, landscaping gone wrong
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The Blotter: The rookie robber The Blotter
Monday November 6, 2017 08:31 pm EST
Plus, welcome to the neighborhood. We've got roaches.
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The Blotter: A fiery love triangle The Blotter
Friday November 3, 2017 06:33 pm EDT
The Atlanta apparel arsonist strikes
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The Blotter: The ID collectors The Blotter
Friday November 3, 2017 05:40 pm EDT
Uh, that's my brother's license
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The Blotter: Thirsty driver The Blotter
Thursday November 2, 2017 06:46 pm EDT
That's a lotta booze
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The Blotter: No air The Blotter
Thursday November 2, 2017 05:02 pm EDT
Sir, why is there vomit on the floor of the driver seat?
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The Blotter: We just rippin' a blunt, officer The Blotter
Wednesday November 1, 2017 06:04 pm EDT
A brazen, yet polite couple gets scooped up by the fuzz
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The Blotter: Back in a sec' The Blotter
Wednesday November 1, 2017 04:51 pm EDT
'It sounded like he knew what he was talking about'
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The Blotter: Uninvited booty call The Blotter
Tuesday October 31, 2017 04:54 pm EDT
'She knew he wasn't with his girlfriend at the time, so she wanted to see him'
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The Blotter: Nobody boot; nobody get choked The Blotter
Tuesday October 31, 2017 04:35 pm EDT
Yet another revival of CL's infamous police blotter
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The Blotter: Chasing Beelzebub The Blotter
Tuesday July 11, 2017 09:04 pm EDT
Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports
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The Blotter: Problematic parcel The Blotter
Tuesday June 6, 2017 02:19 pm EDT
Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports
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The Blotter strikes back The Blotter
Thursday March 9, 2017 01:40 pm EST
Atlanta's infamous crime column returns to Creative Loafing
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The Blotter: Best of the Blotter (2016) The Blotter
Thursday July 14, 2016 04:00 am EDT
A roundup of most bizarre crimes from the past year
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The Blotter: Laced too tight? The Blotter
Thursday July 7, 2016 04:00 am EDT
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...
The Blotter: Compliment conundrum The Blotter
Thursday June 30, 2016 04:00 am EDT
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...
| more...The Blotter: Out on a limb (2) The Blotter
Thursday June 23, 2016 04:00 am EDT
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...
The Blotter: Meat market The Blotter
Thursday June 9, 2016 04:00 am EDT
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...
The Blotter: Spooky ambitions The Blotter
Thursday June 2, 2016 04:00 am EDT
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...
The Blotter: Flexible space oddity The Blotter
Thursday May 26, 2016 04:00 am EDT
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...
| more...The Blotter: Brown trickle woes The Blotter
Thursday May 19, 2016 04:00 am EDT
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.
The man...
| more...The Blotter: Return and burn The Blotter
Thursday May 12, 2016 04:00 am EDT
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...
The Blotter: People steal weird stuff The Blotter
Thursday May 5, 2016 04:00 am EDT
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.
Other recently stolen items:
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...
| more...The Blotter: Food fight The Blotter
Thursday April 28, 2016 04:00 am EDT
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...
The Blotter: Feral freak-out The Blotter
Thursday April 21, 2016 04:00 am EDT
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...
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