A Few Crimes That Make You Say, Hmmm...

Detectives arrested a woman on theft charges stemming from a scam perpetrated on several elderly women who thought they were purchasing a cruise on Carnival Cruise Line.

The victims each paid $481 the suspect in November. They arranged to meet at the Dorothy C. Benson Center but the woman never showed. On May 4th, she returned the funds to the women after learning the warrants had been taken for her arrest. She requested the warrants be dropped. They were not and she was arrested.

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On May 14, police officers were called by an extended stay hotel clerk on Peachtree Dunwoody Road, who suspected two women of renting rooms for the purpose of prostitution. By the names given, the officers determined one had a previous arrest for prostitution.

That woman was not at the room however the other one was. She told the officers that although she knew the other woman was a prostitute, they were only going clubbing and this was the reason for the room rentals.

During the conversation, the officers noticed several packs of condoms and several cell phones and other items that indicated the room was being used for prostitution. The officers told the woman to leave. She asked if she could retrieve her makeup that was in the bathroom in a vanity drawer. The officer found the makeup as well as some marijuana. The woman was later arrested for the misdemeanor amount of marijuana.

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In April, a woman reported that one of her models for an escort company, which she didn’t want to name, received six fifty-dollar bills that were found to be counterfeit. The model, whom she didn’t want to name, met a customer at the La Quinta Inn at Perimeter Center and following the performance of the service that was not named, the man, whose name is Tim, from Texas, paid her in fake cash. The officer placed the money into evidence.

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Fraud

A woman reported that someone tapped into her checking and savings account and withdrew $880 from her account at three ATM machines located at 4454 Roswell Road on May 10, and two withdrawals at 2671 Spring Road in Smyrna on May 11.