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Topless Shoplifter Sparks Manhunt, Manages to Evade Police

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The skin went flying when employees at a Walmart spotted the topless woman stealing clothes

ATHENS, Georgia — What a boob!

A topless shoplifter at a Georgia Walmart proved harder to identify than cops thought, sparking a wide search that ended when the woman got away.

“Units are responding to a report of a topless female shoplifter running from Walmart. No further description was given, but we presume she’ll be the only topless woman running down Epps Bridge Road,” the Oconee County Sheriff’s office wrote on its Facebook page.

The white female, who was in her early 20s, was spotted by a loss prevention officer  inside the store, pulling off her shirt and bra in the women’s section. She then put on a shirt she yanked off the rack and a pair of shorts, which she slid over another pair she was already wearing, the Athens Banner-Herald reported.

Store employees confronted her as she tried to leave, kicking off a struggle during which she pulled off her shirt, kicked off her sandals, and fled barefoot and without a shirt in the direction of the nearby Kohl’s store, deputies said. She still had on the pair of stolen shorts.

Cops searched the area, but were unable to find the woman.

“The only description we had is she was topless. If she was in the area, we would have found her,” Sheriff Scott Berry said.

 

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Georgia Cop Fired After Trying to Run Down Suspect With Patrol Car

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ATHENS, Georgia — A Georgia police department fired one of its officers after he drove his patrol car into a fleeing suspect, authorities said.

Officer Taylor Saulters was let go by the Athens-Clarke County Police Department after a review of his body cam showed how he attempted twice to knock the suspect down using his police car.

The episode began on June 1, when Saulters and his partner saw Timothy Patmon, who was wanted for probation violation. When he spotted the officers, Patmon fled, and Saulters began chasing him in his vehicle.

As Patmon veered left, the video showed Saulters speed up and try to cut him off, but bounce off a curb, flattening his front left tire, cops said.

Patmon then ran to the right, and Saulters hit the gas again and maneuvering the patrol car so that Patmon was knocked to the ground by the vehicle’s right front fender.

“Man, you hit me with your car!” Patmon then told Saulters, who asked if he was injured.

“I know what I did. Why’d you run?” Saulters replied.

Later, Saulters was recorded telling other officers that he “didn’t hit [Patmon] with the car, I blocked him with the car.”

Patmon requested medical treatment, and was later released with scrapes and bruises. He was then booked into Clarke County jail for violating his probation and obstructing a law enforcement officer.

Saulters was initially placed on administrative leave and later fired after an internal affairs investigation.

“This was not the kind of conduct we would expect from an Athens-Clarke County police officer,” Athens-Clarke police spokesman Epifanio Rodriguez told the Athens Banner-Herald.

 

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Man Walks Out of Court Just Ahead of Murder Conviction, Remains on Loose

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Verlaine LaGuerre walked out of court just ahead of his guilty verdict and has not been seen since

ATLANTA — He got out in the nick of time.

A man on trial for murder managed to walk out of a court building and disappear just before he was found guilty of killing a man.

Verlaine LaGuerre, 26, remains on the lam after walking out of the Fulton County courthouse during the the lunch break last month, and not returning to hear the verdict in bis case.

LaGuerre had been on trial for the 2011 death of star football player, Matthew Hardeman,  who was shot more than 50 times.

Prosecutors said LaGuerre and Hardeman had exchanged “dirty looks” in front of Hardeman’s home and then got into a fist fight, prompting LaGuerre to later return with a pal and open fire with an assault rifle and a handgun.

Hardeman bullet-riddled, lifeless body was later found by his family in the front yard.

LaGuerre and his buddy, Prentice Baker, were sentenced to life in prison for the slaying.

Hardeman’s family told WAGA-TV that they fear that LaGuerre may come after them.

 

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Crazed Georgia Doc Threatens to Slit Staffers’ Throats, Roll Heads Down Hall

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Georgia doctor, Marian Antoinette Patterson, was charged with terrorizing her employees

VALDOSTA, Georgia  — Off with their heads!

A Georgia doctor named Marian Antoinette Patterson has been charged with allegedly threatening to slit the throats of her employees, police said.

In one case, Patterson allegedly yelled at an employee that she would  “cut her head off and roll it down the hallway,” and would call the employee’s children so they could see it, WCTV-TV reported.

In the late February incident, cops say Patterson also flung a catalogue, prescription bottles and a reflex hammer across her Valdosta office, damaging a wall in the office. She also threw water on two employees and tried to throw a large potted plant.

The Lowndes County Sheriff’s office said one employee told deputies that Patterson grabbed them by the arm and would not allow them to leave the office.

Investigators opened a probe and charged Patterson late last week with three counts of terroristic threats and one count of false imprisonment.

Patterson’s medical license was temporarily suspended on March 5, aft the Georgia medical board received reports that Patterson had been under the influence while at the practice on multiple occasions.

Sheriff Ashley Paulk called Patterson’s situation “unfortunate,” and said other issues in her life had contributed to her out-of-control behavior.

“It’s unfortunate, there’s some factors in her life that brought about some emotional problems I feel like,” Paulk told WALB. “I hope this is something she can put behind her, because she has a lot of patients, a lot of people that trust her as their doctor, and it’s just one of those things that I hope she can work through.”

               

 

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House Seller Sued for Shooting Photographer Hired to Snap Pictures of Home

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The homeowner claimed she wasn’t expecting a photographer to take pictures of her house

WINSTON, Georgia — This is probably not the best way to start selling your house.

An Atlanta-based photographer is suing a Georgia homeowner after she shot him when he arrived to take photos of her house for a real estate listing.

Whitney Morris, who suffered serious injuries in the Feb. 2 shooting, is also suing the real estate agency that hired him and the agency employee who was supposed to let the homeowner know he was coming.

According to the lawsuit, Morris was initially booked by Real Estate Expert Advisors to do the shoot on Feb. 1, but had to reschedule, the Gwinnett Daily Post reported.

When he showed up at the house the next day, he began by taking pictures of the the exterior of Belinda Brooks’ home in Winston. He then took a key from a lockbox and let himself inside, triggering off an alarm. Brooks — who was inside a bedroom — picked up a handgun and fired through the door, striking Morris as he entered the house.

When Brooks realized what had happened, she called 911 and told the dispatcher that no  one had told her that a photographer was coming and that she thought Morris was an intruder.

But Morris’ suit accuses Brooks of to failing to “act as a reasonable person would under the circumstances.”

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Mother Charged With Slamming Car into Pole to Prove God is Real to Kids

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Bakari Warren says God told her to wrap her car around a telephone pole with her kids in back

NORCROSS, Georgia (March 25, 2018) — A god-fearing mother is behind bars after she allegedly slammed her car into a pole to prove to her two kids in the back seat that God is real.

Cops in Norcross, Georgia say 25-year-old Bakari Warren told officers that she drove her SUV into a pole to show her kids, ages 5 and 7, that God will protect them if they have faith.

Warren’s children also told cops that their mother wrecked the car on purpose.

“Yeah, because she turned,” one of the children said. “Her eyes were closed and she was saying, blah, blah blah, ‘I love God.’”

Officers said Warren did warn the children to buckle up before she crashed and no one was hurt. Warren was arrested on the spot and charged with two counts of child cruelty .

Traffic cameras show the SUV crossing a road   and driving head-on into the concrete pole.

“It could’ve been a lot worse,” Norcross Police Sgt. Eric Butynski told WSB-TV. “It could’ve been heavier traffic at the time, she could’ve hit the pole at such an angle that she did more damage to the car.”

Warren is being held in jail on a $22,000 bond and her children are staying with their grandparents.

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Cheapskate John Gets Life For Killing Prostitute Who Refused to Take $8 For Sex

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Felix Shirley (l) flew into a murderous rage when Misha Moore refused to take just $8 for sex

ATLANTA — A cheapskate john was sentenced to life in prison for killing a prostitute after he offered her just $8 for sex and she refused, authorities said.

Felix Shirley, 26, encountered 27-year-old Misha Moore in January 2017 as he was living his shift as a construction worker at Atlanta’s Mercedes Benz Stadium, the Fulton County District Attorney said.

As they approached a subway station, she offered him sex for money, but when he tried to give her just $8, she told him “it was not enough,” which sent him into a rage, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Shirley then threw her against a wall and when she fell to the ground, he began kicking and stomping on her. He then pulled out a .22 caliber revolver and fatally shot her in the face and neck, prosecutors said.

Her body was later found at the bottom of a stairwell by two Underground Atlanta employees.

The killing was captured by a subway surveillance camera and police quickly circulated images of Shirley. He was captured about three weeks later.

He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life plus five years.

 

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Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill CNN Employees Over ‘Fake News’

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The caller threatened to attack CNN’s headquarters over ‘Fake News’

DETROIT — A Michigan man has been arrested for allegedly calling CNN nearly two dozen times and threatening to kill everyone who worked there, accusing them of producing “fake news,” amid hate-filled rants.

The menacing calls began pouring into the CNN switchboard in Atlanta on Jan. 9 from a number registered to a home in Novi, Michigan, the FBI said.

“Fake news. I’m coming to gun you all down. F — k you, f — king ni—rs,” 24-year-old Brandon Griesemer allegedly told the operator before hanging up.

Several minutes later, Griesemer called back and repeated his threat: “I am on my way right now to gun the f — kin’ CNN cast down. F — k you,” according to an FBI affidavit.

Griesemer allegedly called back 30 minutes later and whispered: “I’m coming for you CNN. I’m smarter than you. More powerful than you. I have more guns than you. More manpower. Your cast is about to get gunned down in a matter of hours.”

The calls carried on the next day, when authorities say Griesemer spouted out slurs about Jews, before stating: “You are going down. I have a gun and I am coming to Georgia right now to go to the CNN headquarters to f — king gun every single last one of you. I have a team of people. It’s going to be great, man . . . You gotta get prepared for this one, buddy.”

CNN managed to figure out who the caller was after bringing in an investigators who was able to trace the number back to Griesemer’s family home in Michigan.

The terrifying calls come at a time of heightened tension for the news media, with President Donald Trump frequently attacking critical press as “fake news,” with CNN being a regular target. Last week, the president unveiled his “Fake News Awards,” naming CNN numerous times. He has also shared several images on Twitter showing him attacking the CNN logo.

Griesemer’s father told the Washington Post that “this whole thing has been a mistake, he really didn’t mean any of it.”

“He didn’t know what he was saying, the seriousness of it. We’re not even gun owners or anything like that. We don’t have any, neither does he,” his father said.

The FBI affidavit also says Griesemer had earlier admitted to phoning in threats to a Michigan mosque in September last year.

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Ninja in Training Breaks Into Georgia Target to Steal Ninja How-To Books

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Christopher Atkins calls himself a ninja in training

DUNWOODY, Georgia — Practice makes perfect.

Police arrested a burglar in Georgia who had broken into a Target store and made off with a stack of books that teach how to be a ninja and enter into secured areas.

Christopher Zahyeer Atkins, 25, of Altamonte Springs Florida, was busted around 1 a.m. Monday as he walked away from the store with a pile of ninja books, DVDs and some electronics, the Dunwoody Police department said.

Officers had been brought there by a burglar alarm and officials at the alarm company spotted a man on security cameras attempting to get inside the store. When officers arrived, they say they spotted Atkins walking away from the shop with a bunch of things tucked under his arm.

“Officers interviewed the suspect and he admitted to making forced entry into the business because he was reading the book Naruto, Volume 5. In this book it was teaching him to be a ninja and how to enter secured areas,” the Dunwoody police department said in a post on Facebook.

Naruto is a series of Japanese manga books about a young ninja.

Atkins was arrested and charged with first degree burglary

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Escaped Circus Tiger Gunned Down in Suburban Atlanta After Attacking Dog

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Cops had no idea where the cat had come from when it was found in a residential neighborhood outside Atlanta

McDONOUGH, Georgia — An escaped circus lion was gunned down by police in Georgia after it ran into an area crowded with homes and attacked a dog, authorities said.

Police in Henry County encountered the big cat near a highway overpass south of Atlanta around 6 a.m. Wednesday morning. As they called for help from animal professionals, the cat ran into a nearby backyard where it tussled with a pooch.

“With the tiger in close proximity to a school bus route in a densely populated area, officers made the decision to put the animal down with gunfire fearing that occupants of the home could be in danger,” the Henry County Sheriff’s office said in a statement.

At first it was a mystery where the animal had come from. A check of nearby big cat sanctuaries turned up no missing cats.

Later in the day, it was revealed that the cat was a 6-year-old Bengal tiger named Suzy who had escaped from a truck transporting her and 13 others from Florida to Tennessee for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Officials with the transport company, Feld Entertainment, said the truck had stopped in Georgia at some point overnight and Suzy had managed to escape unnoticed. The truck’s crew didn’t noticed she was unaccounted for until they reached their destination.

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