Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The 35-year-old Sandy Springs resident hit a median wall, struck another vehicle and ignored Alpharetta Police lights following her.
Update at 11:42 a.m.: the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety Spokesperson George Gordon has released the following statement: “The arresting officer is a state recognized DRE (Drug Recognition Expert). The arrest was based upon the traffic offenses, driving behaviors as well as manifestations of impairment exhibited by the driver. It is the arresting officer's belief based upon his expert training and experience that the accused was operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of substance which caused significant impairment. This is why a blood test was required.” A disoriented Alpharetta preschool teacher was charged with DUI after she allegedly struck a vehicle on Ga. 400, and left the scene of the accident, according to …
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Local police say the man refused to surrender and shot himself when trapped by traffic and police in a strip center's parking lot.
UPDATE at 3:53 p.m.: The Alpharetta Department of Public Safety has released the identity of the suspect accused of several bank robberies in Michigan who shot himself on Tuesday. The man is identified as Jack David Kaiser, 52, of Las Vegas, who is accused of committing a string of bank robberies in Michigan before committing suicide in Alpharetta. ORIGINAL STORY A bank robbery suspect wanted in Michigan is dead after Alpharetta police say the man shot himself rather than surrender to police. Alpharetta's 911 center got a call from St. Claire, MI, police saying they were tracking a suspect by his cell phone as he drove south from Forsyth County into Alpharetta, according to George Gordon, spokesman for the Alpharetta Department of Public …
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N Point Pkwy & Old Milton Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Chris Massey was named the PACT Officer of the Year in a vote by the communities that officer serve.
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Monday, March 4
Alpharetta Police Officer Chris Massey was presented with a $500 check from Alpharetta’s State Bank and Trust Company for being named the PACT Officer of the Year at the annual Alpharetta Public Safety awards event. PACT stands for “Police and Citizens Together." This program assigns a police officer or firefighter to each community within Alpharetta. Alpharetta public safety employees are empowered to help residents with quality of life issues within their assigned community and are asked to hold meetings with the residents designed to foster relationships, said George Gordon, spokesman for the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. Each year, the communities are asked to vote for the PACT Officer of the Year award. Officer Massey …
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State Bank & Trust Company
2380 Old Milton Pky, Alpharetta, GA
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
The Cumming pastor was let go after the mistaken identity was realized.
A Cumming pastor was pulled over at gunpoint by Alpharetta Police after leaving SharpShooters gun range in Roswell when they mistook him for an armed robber on Feb. 16, reports wsbtv.com. God's House of Prayer Pastor Boyd Allen was with two friends on Alpharetta Highway when one of the friends realized they had left a newly purchased gun on top of the car and got out to retrieve it. Seeing the gun on top of the car, a concerned witness called police and that's what caused the confusion, according to the wsbtv.com report. A dispatcher put out a lookout for the pastor's vehicle "for armed robbery and assault," says the report. After the Allen was cuffed on the ground, the mistake was realized and he was let go. But he told wsbtv.com the …
Friday, October 19, 2012
The two Alpharetta residents were flown by helicopter to Grady Memorial Hospital after the car they were in left the roadway near Big Creek.
UPDATED 8:44 a.m. with victims' names. Two victims involved in an early morning single-vehicle accident that closed Webb Bridge Road at Big Creek near North Point Parkway have been identified. The driver of the vehicle was identified as Akshay Panducherry, age 18, of Alpharetta. The passenger was identified as Harshavardhan Patlolla, age 21, also of Alpharetta. A red Ferrari was traveling eastbound on Webb Bridge Road at a high rate of speed when it left the roadway, narrowly missing the bridge at Big Creek, said Alpharetta Department of Public Safety spokesman George Gordon. The Ferarri "missed the bridge abutment by just a few yards when they started to exit the roadway," he said. Two victims crawled from the car after the crash. Two …
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Webb Bridge Rd & North Point Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
The drugs had a street value of over $5.5 million.
The Roswell Police Department helped arrest a couple last weekend for drug trafficking hundreds of pounds of methamphetamines. According to a press release from the department, Roswell and Alpharetta officers assisted Drug Enforcement Administration agents in arresting Jose Carbajal-Pineda and Ana Consuelo Flores, Saturday, Aug. 4, at a home on Rappahannock Drive in Alpharetta, on the Roswell border off Mansell Road. Law enforcement found with 220 pounds of crystal methamphetamines with a street value of more than $5.5 million in the home. Carbajal-Pineda and Flores have been charged with trafficking meth.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Police arrest a man after pursuing him on Old Milton Parkway. He is charged with several crimes, including attempting to elude police, expired license, expired license plate and reckless driving.
A Johns Creek man was charged with several crimes after police pursued him on Old Milton Parkway on June 13. Around 9 p.m., an Alpharetta Police officer heard there was a look-out for a black sedan on Old Milton Parkway, traveling east. A caller was following the suspected impaired driver, and police asked the caller to turn on their emergency flashers so police could locate him. As the officer came off Morris Road to Old Milton Parkway, he saw a truck ahead with its emergency flashers on. He lost sight of the truck but saw a black sedan that was weaving in and out of its lane. He heard another officer say he was behind the suspect vehicle, so the officer pulled off to the side of the road. The car then passed the officer. He pulled out …
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Royal Liquor Store
4305 State Bridge Rd., Unit 109, Alpharetta, GA
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The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
A man from Lexington, S.C. is accused of stealing power tool batteries from Lowe’s on June 11. A loss prevention employee at Lowe’s told police that store security cameras showed the man cutting open plastic packages that contained the batteries. He then put them in his pockets and left the store. The store employee confronted the man and walked him back to the training room to wait for police. The batteries, totaling about $379, were recovered, and the man was charged with shoplifting over $300. Dine and Dash Leads to Arrest Two men from Duluth were arrested on June 14 for eating at Waffle House and leaving without paying their bills. Alpharetta Police were on the lookout for a silver SUV occupied by two men. They spotted a similar car at…
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Stone Mountain man tried to cash a $22,000 check at a local bank branch, but the teller operations manager thought something was fishy and got the police involved. The Bank of America branch on North Point Parkway called to verify the check, which is standard practice for such a large amount. The first call reported back that the check was valid, but she was concerned that the verification number had been changed just a day earlier. So after she called the bank relations manager, the Douglasville company that supposedly wrote the check was called and confirmed the check was fraudulent. Kobbie D. Johnson, 21, of Stone Mountain, was cited for first degree forgery and printing, executing or negotiating a fictitious check. He remains in …
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Bank of America
6304 N Point Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA
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Cherokee Coins
11930 Alpharetta Hwy, Alpharetta, GA
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Traffic backup
Alpharetta police are on the scene investigating a crash that involved an overturned vehicle at GA 400 on the bridge over Windward Parkway. Traffic, which normally is crawling at this time of day, was all but at a standstill. George Gordon, spokesman for the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety, was on scene with investigators just after 5 p.m. today. Injuries were not confirmed immediately. GDOT's Navigator system reports the incident happened at 4:39 p.m., and blocked two lanes of traffic.
Philip Beck
2:43 pm on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
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