Police Scanner

9:40pm Domestic problem reported.
9:40pm 10-28.
9:42pm Reportedly two shots fired near Tributary.
9:44pm Two juveniles walking toward entrance of a school.
9:46pm 10-28.
9:47pm Officer now being dispatched to shots fired call.
9:50pm 10-28.
9:51pm 10-28.
9:52pm 10-28.
9:54pm Man on side of road waving at vehicles on I-20.
9:55pm Domestic problem reported.
9:57pm 10-28.
9:58pm Person called in reporting a group of people possibly smoking drugs.
10:02pm 10-28.
10:05pm Intoxicated driver @ Fairburn & Anneewakee.
10:05pm Residence alarm.
10:07pm Traffic backed up on I-20 due to road construction.
10:10pm 10-62 reported.
10:12pm 10-28.
10:14pm 10-27.
10:18pm 10-28.
10:20pm Residence alarm.
10:20pm 10-28.
10:21pm Concern for juvenile.
10:23pm Several people standing around in a subdivision.
10:25pm Officer out with two people who were fighting.  Another officer is enroute.
10:28pm 10-28.
10:31pm Someone discharging a firearm or fireworks at Corn Crib.

Cinnabon

Cinnabon at Arbor Place has closed…a shame, because their cinnamon rolls are REALLY good.

Coke Machine Stolen

From the DCSO page:

A complainant reported a coke machine was stolen from 3867 Bankhead Highway on 7/28/09 at approximately 3:30am. The suspects were in an extended cab Ford Ranger, possibly red or burgundy in color. One of the suspects was a heavyset white male possibly in his mid-40’s with a bald head. The driver of the vehicle was a black male with no other description available.

Any information, please contact Sergeant Mike Howell at 770-920-4915 or DCSO Dispatch at 770-949-5656.  If you wish to call and just leave a message on the TipLine for this or any other crime, please call 678-486-1253.

Kids These Days…

This is from the DSCO page…maybe there should have been more summer camps this summer…it could have prevented this.

DCSO deputies were called to Dogwood Blossom Mobile Home Park on a report of a juvenile who had reportedly been hung by other juveniles. After investigation, Investigators learned that the children had been re-enacting a WCW TLC wrestling match they had seen on TV. The Championship Belt had been hung in a tree and each of the boys was trying to be the first to reach it. The kids were taking thin wood and pieces of an interior door and hitting each other with these objects similar to what they do on TV. All of the kids on the scene had cuts and bruises on them from fighting each other. As one boy fell from the ladder, he became entangled in a piece of nylon rope that was looped around a large cable that was strung from tree to tree to be used as a zip line. The boy caught the rope around the neck and was hanging from it. He falsely reported that the other boys had hanged him but later recanted and confessed it was an accident.

New Local Message Board

This one is moderated, so it should be a lot better than the Topix board.  You can find it at http://www.douglastalks.com

Douglasville To Add Four Officers

Thanks to Richard Segal for forwarding the article to me–haven’t had much time to update the blog lately.  The money for hiring the officers is coming from federal stimulus funds.  As both the city and county are shorthanded, the officers are needed.  However, the county will not get officers under these federal funds–I wonder why?  I wonder if the people in charge of the funds thought maybe they weren’t needed, or did the DCSO say that no additional officers were needed?

The article can be found here.