Crime & Safety

Milton Police Clear July Burglary Case with September Arrest

The following arrest information was supplied by the Milton police department. It does not indicate a conviction.

A woman who claimed at two different North Fields Pass homes in July that she needed to borrow the phone to call for help with her broken down SUV has been arrested for burglary of a residence by force, a felony.

At the first home, the husband asked the suspect to try starting her SUV once his wife told him her story. It started right up, and she fled. He was unable to follow her, and flagged down the officer dispatched to a second home.

A babysitter at the second home said she looked up to see the suspect standing near her purse in the kitchen. The suspect asked again to use the phone, and while the babysitter was putting down the baby went into the bathroom.

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The babysitter saw her wallet was missing from her purse when she got back, and asked the suspect, who got defensive and left. The babysitter discovered her debit card and $40 in cash was missing from her wallet when she found it in the bathroom.

Audrey Carol Shirley, 34, of Cumming, was arrested on Sept. 8 and charged with residential burglary. She remained in Fulton County Jail. Bond was set at $10,500 on the felony charge.

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Dogs Ruin Some Milton Neighbors' Days

Dogs barking, playing and attacking were the source of separate complaints to the Milton police department in the past week.

On Sept. 11 at about 8 a.m., a woman walking her dog on Harmony Court said an unleashed pit bull mix attacked her dog, biting it on its neck and causing lacerations around its left eye and right ear.

The attacking dog's owner was cited for allegedly violating Milton's leash law.

In another police call, a Basnet Court resident said a neighbor's bulldog attacked her dog for the second time.

The neighbor admitted failing to put her dog's electronic fence collar back on after a walk. But she said her bulldog just wanted to play. No visible injuries were seen on the other dog. The bulldog owner's neighbor asked the officer not to issue a citation.

Barking dogs got a Hopewell Plantation Drive resident upset, so she called Milton police on Sept. 8 at 1 p.m.

The officer determined the dogs were barking at movers while their owner had them outside to avoid being underfoot. The neighbor asked to go to court to solve the issue of the noise complaints. But the complaining neighbor wanted a citation, not a subpoena to plead her case about the noise, so only a report was filed.

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