March 09, 2009

Room service

  • By Linda Sickler
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  • linda@connectsavannah.com
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A tourist from Texas was reported to be "sick" and "trespassing" in a hotel room. When an officer arrived, the man was found asleep in a room that was supposed to be unoccupied.

Management couldn't wake the man up, and realized he was breathing, but unresponsive. The officer, however, was able to wake the man up after several minutes.

The man appeared to be extremely intoxicated. After verifying his identification, management realized he had wondered into the wrong room several hours earlier and had fallen asleep. He was escorted to the correct room.

 -- A teacher called police to report that a former student's mother has been harassing her. She said the boy had been in her class two years earlier and since he was having trouble with his lessons, she tutored him and gave him her phone numbers.

Instead, the mother started calling the teacher and leaving messages, saying that she was in love with the teacher and wanted to be with her. The teacher changed her home and cell numbers so the woman went to the teacher's neighbors to try to get information.

She said the woman even called the hospital after she had given birth and said she was going to come to the hospital. The woman also has been driving around the teacher's house.

The teacher said she had no involvement with the woman other than tutoring her son.

-- Police were called to a Cullman Street address on a report of theft of utility services. About three months ago, an employee of Atlanta Gas & Light was called to the residence to investigate possible theft of services.

The employee found that the gas meter had been disabled, so he cut off the gas running to the residence. When he was in the area more recently, he stopped at the house to check the meter.

The pipes were concealed by a sheet and the gas line had been reconnected. The residents apparently had been stealing gas utility services, so he called police.

An officer observed that the gas line was unmetered and reconnected with rubber pipe and hose clamps. He could hear the gas hissing through the poorly connected lines.

The Atlanta Gas & Light employee again cut off the gas. The officer spoke to a resident of the house, who said she'd only been living there for two weeks and knew nothing about the theft of gas utility services.

She told the officer he needed to speak with the landlord. However, when the officer ran a check on the resident, it showed she had been living at the address since 2006.

The Atlanta Gas & Light employee was given a police report and advised of warrant procedures.

-- A woman was arrested after police were called to a Clark Avenue address on a report of a domestic dispute. On arrival, an officer spoke with a man who said that his wife had beaten him up.

The officer saw injuries to the man's forehead, face and right arm. He asked the man if he needed treatment by EMS, and at first the man said no, but later agreed to treatment.

When asked what had happened, the man said he had just come home from work when his wife started fussing at him about the time he had gotten home. He said they argued for a few minutes and then his wife began punching him in the face.

The man said he tried to move away from her as she was hitting him. He said she took the keys to one of the cars and left the house when he called police.

Officers checked the area and found the woman just around the corner, sitting in a BMW. She was brought back to the scene and asked what had happened.

The woman said she and her husband had been in an argument and that she knows how she "can get" so she left. The officer asked if she knew how her husband got the injuries he had sustained, and she said she didn't know.

Based on the testimony of the husband and the injuries he sustained, the wife was determined to be the primary aggressor. She was advised that she was being placed under arrest for battery under the domestic violence act, then placed into handcuffs and patted down by a female officer.

The woman was transported to the Chatham County Detention Center. The officer then spoke with the husband again and gave him some remedies to his situation.

The man said his wife had hit their other car, so it wasn't operational and was sitting in the yard. He said the car wasn't insured.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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