Ex-con steals car from shelter operators

The man and his wife operate a shelter for ex-convicts called Meet the Needs Ministry.

According to the victim, the shelter operates several homes with very strict guidelines. Tenants are required to sign documents indicating they understand that failure to follow the guidelines may result in criminal charges being filed.

The suspect reportedly asked to borrow one of the ministry vehicles so that he could take his daughter to a movie. The victim called four days later when the suspect still had not returned the vehicle.

The victim was able to provide a copy of the suspect’s license.

The vehicle was entered on GCIC as stolen, but no warrants had been taken at the time of the report.

Other recent incidents investigated by the Barrow County’s Sheriff’s Office include:

• theft by taking on Regency Drive. A two gigabyte Polaroid memory card was reported stolen.

• suspicious incident on Apalachee Church Road. A man reported that two of his four wheelers had been moved as if someone was planning to come back and steal them.

• stolen vehicle on Lamar Giles Road. A 2000 Ford Explorer was stolen from the driveway of the home. The victim’s handbag was also taken.

• stolen vehicle on Beaver Dam Road. A white Toyota Camry was reported stolen from a ministry that helps former convicts. One of these ex-convicts is a suspect.

• simple battery on Hwy. 11. A trespasser accused a property owner of shoving him in the chest.

• identity theft on Pinebrook Rd. A woman believes her sister used her identity to incur $1,500 in charges from Atlanta Medical Center.

• entering auto on Chimney Trace. Approximately $500 worth of items were stolen from a vehicle.

• entering auto on Bowling Lane. A GPS unit valued at $200 was stolen from an unlocked 2004 GMC Sierra.

• damage to vehicle on Patrick Mill Road. A vehicle was damaged by what appeared to be a 9mm pistol slug.

• damage to vehicle on Hwy. 316. A woman called the Sheriff’s Office after her car windshield was damaged by rocks which she believed came off the back of a tractor trailer.

• criminal trespass on Deer Run Trail. A belt-slinging girlfriend broke a man’s car window when she learned he was seeing another woman.

• complaint on Jaden Lane. A man called 911 after his neighbor began shouting obscenities at him as he burned small piles of brush.

• civil dispute on Morris Lane. A woman said the man she hired to do work on her car had not completed the job and had returned some of the parts and supplies she purchased for cash instead of using them as intended.

• burglary on Paige Way. Approximately $28,000 worth of jewelry was reported stolen.

• abandoned vehicle on Hwy. 316 east of Patrick Mill Rd. An abandoned 1998 Nissan Frontier was towed after a deputy discovered the vehicle was uninsured.

• abandoned vehicle on Highway 11 at Tanners Bridge Rd. A gold Buick Electra with no insurance and cancelled registration was towed after being left parked on the side of the roadway.

• abandoned vehicle on Carl Cedar Hill Road. A Cadillac was abandoned on private property. Attempts to reach the vehicle owner were unsuccessful.

• suspicious vehicle on Kennedy Sells Road. A woman reported that a green Ford Explorer occupied by two Hispanic males turned into her driveway. The driver then did a u-turn in the woman’s yard leaving skid marks on the pavement.

• suspicious incident on Water Wheel Drive. A man called 911 after he saw a car parked outside his girlfriend’s house. The boyfriend followed the car until the driver exited his vehicle and asked why the boyfriend was following him and what his problem was.

• suspicious incident on Pendergrass Road. A woman called 911 after hearing a door close in her residence.

• suspicious drugs on Bankhead Highway. A man found a small black bag containing pills and a substance believed to be crystal meth near the railroad tracks. The drugs were flushed down the toilet by the responding deputy.

• forgery on Christmas Avenue. A woman successfully cashed a fraudulent check for $476.32 at a gas station.

• entering auto on Crosswalk Drive. A computer and GPS unit valued at $2,250 were stolen from a vehicle. The auto owner said the doors were locked at the time of the theft, but the deputy did not detect any signs of forced entry.

• dispute on Saddle Ridge Drive. A man called 911 after a repo man threatened to “whip his ass.”

• disorderly conduct on Kirkland Circle. A father locked his son out of the house when the son began acting intoxicated and irrational. The son was arrested for demanding entry into the residence and creating a disturbance.

• criminal trespass on Morris Lane. A homeowner reported $150 in damage to his mailbox.

• criminal trespass on Biedemeier Road. A man was charged with criminal trespass after throwing pebbles at his ex-girlfriend’s house in an attempt to get her attention.

• criminal trespass on Atlanta Highway. Three males were served with a prohibited entry notice after a car wash manager saw them loitering near a coin box.

• computer trespass on Cronic Town Road. A computer was accessed without authorization.

• burglary on Carl Bethlehem Road. Approximately $800 worth of copper wiring was stolen from a chicken house.

• burglary and entering auto on Rogers Road. A key was stolen from a vehicle and $2,700 worth of guns were stolen from inside the residence.

• assault on Hwy. 211. Two women began arguing after one of the women received a phone call from the other woman’s ex-boyfriend.

• animal complaint on Rainey Brooke Drive. A man said his neighbor’s dog chases, jumps on and attempts to bite his children as they wait for the bus. The man called animal control, but wanted to make a report “in case his neighbor threatened him like he did the last time.”

• altercation on Deer Run Trail. Two men gave conflicting accounts of an incident which resulted in one man using an expandable baton to break a headlight on one vehicle and the other man reportedly breaking a tail light cover on another vehicle.

• 911 hang up on Lokeys Ridge Road. The homeowner said he had not called 911 and believed the problem was with his Windstream phone service.

• 911 hang up on Lokeys Ridge Road. A juvenile dialed 911 while playing on the telephone.

• 911 hang up on Creekwood Road. A juvenile called 911 while playing on the phone.

• 911 hang up on Brooks Lane. A woman accidentally hit the emergency button on her phone. She said the same thing had happened several times in the past.