Fulton Schools Bus Driver Accused of Driving Motorcycle 100 MPH

CORRECTION: The female motorist in the first incident listed below involving a motorcycle was only cited for speeding. She did not receive citations for either reckless driving or racing.

Motorists don't always seem to realize police have lasers to track their speed and engines capable of catching up to most production vehicles.

A 46-year-old Alpharetta woman who identified herself was arrested after her motorcycle was clocked at 100 mph on GA 400 southbound near Windward Parkway on Jan. 29 at 7:41 p.m.

The Alpharetta police officer reported that two motorcycles were clocked at that speed. The woman's motorcycle exited at Windward Parkway, while the other motorcycle continued south.

She gave police a name and cell phone number for the other biker, and called the man at the officer's request asking that he turn himself in.

Officers went to the man's Roswell home a few hours later and took him into custody.

Both drivers were cited for speeding. The male driver also was cited for reckless driving.

A 22-year-old Roswell man probaby should have let his passenger do the driving in the first place, rather than just turning the keys over after his arrest.

An Alpharetta police officer was patrolling northbound on GA 400 at Haynes Bridge Road at 9:42 a.m. on Feb. 3 when a car sped by. The officer used his laser and got a reading of 83 mph in the 65 mph zone.

Once stopped near the Kimball Bridge Road overpass, the driver told the officer he didn't have his license with him, and he "was just going with the flow of traffic.

He was arrested and cited for driving with a revoked license and speeding. He asked the officer to give his passenger the car keys.

A few days earlier, on Jan. 29, a 28-year-old Norcross woman also was clocked at 83 mph on Ga 400 south of Windward Parkway.

The Alpharetta police officer stopped the car just inside Forsyth County in the northbound side of GA 400.

The woman gave the officer a Georgia driver's license that expired in July 2010. The officer reported the woman said she was trying to get her "legal status" in the country.

She was cited for driving with an expired license and speeding.

The juvenile in the car with the woman called his mother and was taken to meet her.

Homeless Man Fails to Heed Warning

A 34-year-old homeless man was arrested and cited for soliciting without a license or permit near the GA 400/Mansell road interchange on Jan. 30 at 6:23 p.m.

The man told Alpharetta police a few of the guys he lives in the woods with left before an officer arrived.

The officer reminded him he had been given a warning against panhandling less than a month ago. The man replied he knew it wasn't allowed, but he was hungry.

Sometimes it's the Boss Who Does Wrong

An Alpharetta woman thought her problems with a fraudulent use of her debit card were over last November, but bank investigators determined the charge wasn't fraudulent. Now money has been taken back out by the bank and she has to take more steps to get her money refunded a second time.

The restaurant employee's mother got an email notification in late November 2011 saying her daughter's account was overdrawn. The victim disputed the $779.71 plane ticket purchase with the bank. She told bank investigators she never gave permission to her supervisor, a suspect in the fraud, to use her debit card. Her account was refunded, but she never filed a police report.

Now bank investigators are back, and after her mother contacted the bank's fraud department, she's filed a police report to press charges. Alpharetta police told her to provide the bank with the case number.

For questions about this blotter, email the editor, Bob Pepalis.