Friday, October 05, 2007

Suspect Shot In East Point Died

CBS46.com is reporting that the suspect that was shot by Douglas County police officers in East Point has died.  Here's the article from CBS46.com:
 
The robbery suspect shot in Thursday night's police chase in Douglas County has died.

The incident began late Thursday when an employee at a Subway restaurant in Douglas County called police after spotting a man believed to have robbed the deli last month, authorities said. The suspect then tried to rob a nearby hotel and hit an employee there in the head with a gun.

Deputies chased the suspect along Interstate 20 eastbound and followed him to Interstate 285 before the suspect jumped out of his vehicle and began shooting at law enforcers, who returned fire.

The suspect, whose name was not immediately released, died Friday at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.




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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Scanner Happenings

A busy day (and night) for officers.

10:19pm Assault reported as a result of a domestic problem—someone hit someone else on the head.

10:22pm Domestic problem reported. 

10:23pm Two units at Cracker Barrel and two at Hampton Inn—will check in archives later to see what happened.  The Hampton Inn crime is detailed at the end of this post.

10:25pm Someone locked their keys in their car at a restaurant.

10:26pm Officer asking for a photographer to take pictures of 10:19pm assault.

10:32pm Someone's been arrested.

10:36pm Grace Personal Care Home on fire.  Evacuation in process of all residents.

10:36pm 10:19pm assault victim being taken to hospital.

10:38pm Fire department on way to personal care home. 

10:44pm GBI arrived at a scene.

10:44pm Officer says no fire at personal care home.

10:44pm Domestic—someone threw someone else off a second floor balcony.  Victim is injured and it happened somewhere else in the county from where victim is calling from, not city, but city is responding.

10:49pm Person who threw person off balcony is intoxicated. Either city or county keeps asking if a county officer is enroute.

10:53pm Two 10-28s.

10:54pm Officer looking for person who threw person off balcony.

10:54pm One 10-28 comes back as suspended.

10:57pm Two more officers going to apartment complex where person who threw another off balcony has not been found.

11:01pm Something about the Waffle House and a body repair shop.  Was cut off.

11:01pm Residential alarm in Anneewakee Trails—neighbor called in and said alarm has been going off for an hour.

11:02pm 10-28

11:06pm One more officer going to join officers at balcony crime to look for suspect.

11:08pm Officer asking officers to kill their siren.

11:09pm Officers are behind a car wash.

11:10pm One person arrested (not balcony crime)

11:12pm Intoxicated driver on Thornton Road.

11:12pm 10-28

11:13pm 10-27

In addition an officer was chasing a suspect on I-85 in East Point and the suspect began firing shots at the officer, who then fired shots at the suspect.  Suspect was injured.  GBI was called out.

There was also an armed robbery shortly before 9pm at a Subway and then at the Hampton Inn on Thornton Road.  Both by the same person.

Also this afternoon one person was arrested for shoplifting in Dillard's.

In addition, a business on Thornton Road and the McDonald's on Hwy 5 were the victims of a counterfeit crime.  In both crimes, the suspects fled before officers arrived.

 





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Man Dragged Through Parking Lot Saturday

I got an email a couple of days ago asking if someone had been dragged by a vehicle Saturday night near the courthouse.  I didn't want to continue this rumor, so I had no way to confirm this other than asking if something had happened near the courthouse.  It turned out to be true.  It wasn't too far away from the courthouse--it was at Big Lots--but I hope you'll understand why I'm wary about posting things that people have "heard."  Without listening to the scanner feed archives, there's no way to confirm it actually happened.  There was also a rumor of a gang fight at a business near Big Lots--so I guess the fight mentioned below is what the person heard.  But I can't confirm it was a gang fight.
 
Here's the Sentinel article:
 
Bond denied on fight, assault charges
By Bobby Moore
Staff Writer
Posted: Thursday, October 4, 2007 1:04 AM EDT
 
Santos Bonilla was denied bond Wednesday by Judge Susan Camp on charges of affray(Editor's Note: If you've never heard of the word, it's defined by wikipedia as "A person is guilty of Affray if he uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another and his conduct is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety.)  and aggravated assault that stem from a Saturday night incident in the Big Lots parking lot.

According to officials, a man ran into another man in the parking lot with a motor vehicle and dragged him over 600 feet across the parking lot and onto Fairburn Road.

Bonilla's stepson, Elmer Alvarez, was given a bond of $12,000 for charges of affray and aggravated assault. Alvarez was allegedly involved in a fight prior to the alleged aggravated assault incident.
 
In other news, Sheshone Musgrave received an $8,000 bond for charges of first degree forgery and six counts of second degree forgery that are linked to an alleged Internet scam.

A bond of $4,000 was set for Luis Delgado for a felony charge of theft by taking that stems from alleged thefts that occurred when Delgado was an Office Depot employee.

Clint Wilson was given a bond of $2,500 for charges of possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drugs not in their original container and a seat belt violation.
 
Olivio Sanchez received a $2,500 bond for a charge of carrying a concealed weapon.




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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

From the Douglas County Sentinel

One reported injured in fight
From staff reports
Posted: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 1:03 AM EDT
 
One person was reported injured in a fight yesterday afternoon as some students were getting off a school bus near the Villas apartments on Lee Road in east Douglas County.

According to reports, a Lithia Springs High School student was knocked unconscious in the altercation, and two other students were reportedly taken into custody.

The incident was investigated by the Douglasville Police Department, but no other details were available by press time.




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Monday, October 01, 2007

Fight at AHS on September 12

I didn't get a chance to report this because I was knee-deep in final exams at the time.  This fight happened at Alexander on September 12--and the Sentinel did not report it.  There is a lot of gossip going around the internet about it so I thought I'd listen to the feed archive and post the facts that were heard on the scanner.  Parents are saying it was a gang fight, but the actual word "gang" was not mentioned on the scanner so I can't confirm it was a gang fight.
 
Two kids were sprayed with pepper spray.  Two were unconscious(not sure if the two unconscious were the two who were pepper sprayed).  Four officers went to the school and the ambulance went to the school.
 
There was a mention of a 10-95 but I don't know if it was at AHS or not.
 
An officer said he needed more handcuffs.  He said he was going to get his zip ties.  So if there was a larger fight, this was most likely when it happened.
 
More officers went to AHS.
 
All of the above happened before 12:17pm.
 
Two suspects possibly arrested if this is related to the AHS gang fight.
 
I heard nothing else about it from about 12:20pm-12:38pm.
 
I then listened to the Fire/Ambulance scanner, which said two students were sprayed--and then said nothing else.  The dispatcher called the ambulance to the school for an "evaluation" of the students.  They were dispatched before 12:08pm.

At least one student was taken to Cobb Hospital.




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Saturday

Did anything out of the ordinary happen at the courthouse on Saturday night?  I'm listening to the feed archives and the only thing I've heard thus far is that someone called in to complain about the concert being too loud.  The deputy or sheriff's response was that no one was to respond--that it was being hosted by the commissioners and the citizen could contact them to complain.




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