Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Stone Mountain woman was arrested March 27 in connection with the forgery three weeks earlier of a Savannah couple's check at a Wells Fargo bank. A woman entered the bank on Old Milton Parkway and attempted to cash a check for $4,500 on the Savannah couple's bank account. The teller asked for identification, and according to the incident report the suspect showed on out-of-state ID with her own name on it. The transaction threw up red flags for the teller because of the ID, the check belonged to a customer from Savannah and the suspect was attempting to cash it in Alpharetta rather than Savannah or even nearby South Carolina. A check with the bank's fraud department revealed that the phone number for the account had been changed that day…
Friday, October 5, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
An Acworth man who was arrested on forgery and drug charged told Alpharetta police he "figured something was up" when a woman with whom he traded drugs for sex asked him to cash a check but wouldn't enter the bank with him. An Alpharetta man reported to police on Sept. 25 that one of his checks was cashed for $125 with the name of a friend who was at his house a few days earlier. Police found the suspect where he worked at Hudson Grille, hiding in the cooler with his face to the wall. After he was taken into custody and away from the scene, a restaurant employee told police a syringe was found inside the cooler. Police retrieved the syringe, which contained what was suspected to be heroin. Daniel C. Urban, 24, of Acworth, was charged with …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
An Atlanta man was arrested on Sept. 14, two months after he allegedly threatened to have someone slit a homeless man's throat. Two homeless men who lived in the woods off Westside Way complained to police on July 14 that a man who allegedly robbed one of the men threatened one of them enough that they ran for their lives. One of the men said the suspect showed up in the homeless camp after being incarcerated for armed robbery, and then threatened to have someone slit his throat. Both men ran away. When the threatened man tried to return to the homeless camp to get his belongings, he said the suspect and some other unknown people met him and started following him when he again left. He called 911, and the suspect fled the scene when a …
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Milton police department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Roswell woman's business had suffered multiple check forgery incidents in her city, so she was prepared when another attempt was made in Milton. The businesswoman had placed a fraud alert on her account, so when someone tried to cash a forged check at a Milton bank branch on Sept. 11, she was alerted and police were called. When Milton police arrived at the Chase Bank branch on Windward Parkway, they encountered a suspect who said he was trying to cash a check. He became upset when asked where he got the check. The teller approached by the suspect said the check presented was counterfeit. While it appeared to be printed on bank paper, it was not the correct format for Chase Bank checks. She told the officer she stalled the transaction …
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Chase Bank
5170 Windward Pky, Alpharetta, GA
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
A caller from somewhere in New York started by making a bomb threat to a local Verizon Wireless building if he wasn't given all of the company's money. But on later calls he changed his request to free minutes, and then to buy the company. During the first call at 6:09 a.m. on Sept. 2, the caller told the call taker, says: "I need you to transfer all the money in your company to my phone. If you don't, I will detonate an EMT in your building." After getting the caller to repeat his request, the wireless company employee asked for the caller's phone number. The caller responded by cursing at her and hanging up. The person called a second time at 6:51 a.m. and said he was going to blow up a building if he wasn't given free minutes. The …
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
A suspect apparently went back to the same bank branch once to often to open up what Alpharetta police say was a fraudulent business account. Alpharetta police were called to the bank on Aug. 24 in reference to a forgery in progress. The branch manager of the Regions Bank on North Point Parkway told an investigating offier that the man was in his office attempting to open up a business account with false identification. The branch manager said the same man had allegedly been in the bank before attempting to do the same thing with yet another false identification. When the officer asked the man who he was, the suspect gave a false name. The officer had the Virginia driver's license provided checked, but it did not return as a valid license…
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-84.294177
6503 N Point Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA
Regions Bank
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
Alpharetta police didn't have to stop a 33-year-old Duluth man's vehicle to take him into custody on a probation violation warrant out of Duluth. His car broke down at the intersection of North Point Parkway and Kimball Bridge Road. An Alpharetta officer spotted the suspect's car on June 5 at 9:29 a.m. at the intersection, and stopped to help out. The vehicle's license plate was checked and the officer discovered the owner was wanted on the probation violation. An incident report states that the suspect tried to swing his arms to get released by the officer, and both men ended up on the ground. Once he was handcuffed, the suspect became compliant. An inventory of the suspect's car, which was being impounded, turned up eight fake bills of U…
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-84.27523
N Point Pkwy & Kimball Bridge Rd, Alpharetta, GA
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Florida man was arrested at a Haynes Bridge Road bank branch for trying to cash a fraudulent check. A bank teller said the suspect came into the bank asking to cash a check from a Cary, N.C. business. Noticing the signature was unusually light on the check, she told the suspect a call needed to be placed to verify funds. The suspect said he needed his identification card back, and that he needed to go. Alpharetta police arrived and spotted the suspect in front of the bank, talking on a cell phone. He was arrested. The officer called the check's owner, and the Cary, N.C. business confirmed the check was fraudulent as the original check was in North Carolina. Lamar S. Carr, 31, of Palatka, FL, was arrested and charged on May 23 with first …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
A bank manager at a Windward Parkway bank branch found quite a few things suspicious about a young man's attempt to deposit a $30,000 check into his just opened account, and now the man and an alleged accomplice have been arrested on forgery charges. The 24-year-old unemployed Duluth man brought the $30,000 check to the Bank of America branch on April 25 just after 3:30 p.m. The red flags identified by the bank manager included: When an Alpharetta police officer arrived, he saw a possible second suspect in the parking lot in the passenger seat and on the phone. The incident report said it's common for an accomplice to be outside as a lookout. He reported the alleged accomplice's description and that of the vehicle to other officers …
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-84.2355
Bank of America
6225 Windward Pky, Alpharetta, GA
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
Motorist First Backs into Car, Then Into Woman A woman pumping gas at the BP station on Windward Parkway watched another vehicle back into her car and then got hit herself when the driver backed up again as she took a photo of its license plate. Five days later, on Jan. 25, Alpharetta police arrested Justin Tyler Ivy, 18, on charges of felonious aggravated assault and hit and run. He was released on Jan. 27 from Fulton County Jail on $25,000 bond. The victim said she was pumping gas on Jan. 20 at 11:23 p.m. when a silver Lexus ES300 backed up from another parking space into her car. Its driver pulled back into the parking space, and a passenger got out and went into the store. She said she walked to the back of the Lexus to take a photo of…
