$8,000 In Jewelry Missing After Apartment Fire: Blotter

Editor's note: the following incidents were taken from the Sandy Springs Police Department's Weekly Wrap Up compiled by Capt. Steve Rose. This week's wrap up contains some of the incidents that occurred March 3-8:

Burglary

• 5675 Roswell Road, 30342, 3/3: The apartment resident said she has jewelry missing after she left the apartment following a fire. She was gone from the apartment several weeks. She recently discovered several items of jewelry valued at around $8,000 are gone.

Theft

• 5590 Roswell Road, 30342, 3/3 (Sub-Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream): A woman reported her cellphone had been stolen from the counter at the ice cream store. She tracked the phone to Chariot Street, which is off Barfield Road. The officer followed up with a visit to the townhomes on Chariot and spoke to at least two subjects in separate residences who were not familiar with the theft. The complainant said a group of people was around the phone at the time of the theft, but she did not see the theft of the phone.
• 5675 Roswell Road, 30342, 3/3: The caller said he placed his bike at the front door of his apartment. Within 20 minutes, someone took it. It is a Schwinn bike valued at $300.
• 6159 Roswell Road, 30328, 3/4 (U-Haul): An employee said someone pried the exterior key box and took a U-Haul truck.
• 5700 block of Roswell Road, 30342, 3/4 (Comfort Inn): The caller reported an Apple Watch and a set of iTouch headphones were stolen from their room while they were gone for around one and a half hours.
• 8700 block of Dunwoody Place, 30350, 3/5: The complainant said someone broke into his rented storage space and took clothing and shoes that he valued at over $6,000.
• Spalding Trail, 30350, 3/5: The caller said her car, a 2012 black Dodge Charger, was stolen during the late morning or early afternoon hours from the apartment parking lot.
• 200 block of Glenridge Point, 30328, 3/6: The caller said someone forced entry to a storage shed and stole a Stihl chain saw and cut-off saw.
• 144 Allen Road, 30328, 3/6: The caller said someone stole her clothes iron. The iron was stored in the late summer and discovered missing at the end of February.
• 6300 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road, 30328, 3/6: The caller said several items were taken from her room at Extended Stay America. They include jeans and jewelry valued at around $5,000. She had been staying at the hotel for a week and told officers she suspects the cleaning staff.
• 3100 block River Exchange Drive, 30350, 3/6 (The Mansion Senior Living Community): A resident reported that he discovered money had been taken from his bedroom dresser. He told the officer he began to pay attention to the situation and discovered several $20 bills were taken on a later date. He decided to lay $55 in bills out in his dresser and copy the bill’s numbers. They, too, were taken by a member of the cleaning crew, according to the complainant. He went to the management and gave a description of the suspect. They said the description matched that of an employee whom they fired five days past. The report didn’t go into detail, but noted the staff was going to provide the suspect’s information to the police.
• 6500 block of Roswell Road, 30328, 3/7: The complainant said an F-250 Ford pickup was stolen from a construction site overnight. The truck is a fuel truck for construction machines and contains a silver gas tanker containing 400 gallons of diesel fuel.

Thefts From Vehicles

• 1000 block of Gettysburg Pl, 30350, 3/3
• 5400 block of Interstate North Pkwy, 30328, 3/4
• 1100 block of Perimeter Center West, 30328, 3/8
• 4500 Roswell Road, 30342, 3/6
• 5300 Roswell Road, 30342, 3/7

Fraud

• 3600 block of Spring Creek Lane, 30350, 3/5: The victim said he used his debit card at QuikTrip on Roswell Road on Jan. 30. He said it was either lost or stolen from that location and later used to deposit fake checks and subsequent withdrawals totaling $1,100.
• 6600 block of Roswell Road, 30328, 3/5: The caller said he purchased a Rolex Submariner watch for $8,000, using his PayPal account to transfer the funds. The tracking information showed the tracking began in Hamburg, Germany, accepted by USPS here, and sent to an address on Cole Avenue in Spring Valley New York, where the package was signed for. That address is a high-rise apartment building.
• 7355 Roswell Road (CVS), 3032, 3/5: A customer provided a prescription for 84 30mg Oxycodone pills. The pharmacist became suspicious and according to the report, issued only 28 pills. The pharmacist was later informed that the prescription was forged.
• 1117 Perimeter Center West, 30328, 3/6: The caller reported he received a $9,000 check, payment for a diamond, which came back as insufficient funds. The caller’s attorney sent the certified letter demanding the funds and reported the matter to the PD.

Assault

• 5320 Roswell Road, 30342, 3/3: domestic violence
• 200 block of Northridge Road, 30350, 3/4: The caller said she and her male friend got into an argument. At one point, he grabbed her arm and pulled her from a vehicle. They continued via Uber to his residence where she got into her personal car and left. She reported her phone damaged during the incident.
• 4600 block of Roswell Road, 30342, 3/4: domestic violence

Other Things

• 1000 block of Wescott Lane, 30328, 3/3: The caller said he hired a contractor to do interior work on his home. The contractor hired a subcontractor to do door work. The sub worked in the home for several weeks and then did not work for a couple of weeks but demanded payment in full. The caller said he paid about 90 percent of the balance as a favor to his contractor. The subcontractor used multiple slurs and insults on the text messages that he left the victim.

Arrests

• 6000 Barfield Road, 3/3, 30328: disorderly conduct
• I-285/Roswell Road, 3/3, 30328: DUI
• 8725 Roswell Road, 3/3, 30350: DUI
• 500 block of Northridge, 3/3, 30350: wanted person arrested
• 1100 Hammond Drive, 3/4, 30328: disorderly conduct
• GA-400 at Abernathy Road, 3/4, 30328: DUI
• 250 Hammond Dr., 3/4, 30328: disorderly conduct
• 300 block of Hammond Dr., 3/4, 30328: wanted person arrested
• 1050 Hammond Dr., 3/4, 30328: disorderly conduct
• 1100 Pitts Road, 3/5, 30350: wanted person arrested
• 240 E. Belle Isle Rd., 3/6, 30342: theft by receiving motor vehicle
• 1600 Riveredge Pkwy, 3/6, 30328: wanted person arrested
• 6330 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, 3/6, 30328: wanted person arrested
• 4500 Roswell Road, 3/6, 30342: DUI
• I-285 at Ga-400, 3/3, 30328: DUI
• 6330 PDR, 3/6, 30328: prostitution
• I-285 at Riverside Dr., 3/6, 30328: wanted person arrested
• 1000 block of Crestline Pkwy, 3/6, 30328: wanted person arrested
• Roswell Road at Abernathy, 3/6, 30328: DUI
• 7100 block of Roswell Rd., 3/7, 30328: DUI
• I-285 at Riverside Dr., 3/7, 30328: wanted person arrested