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 …
Monday, August 6, 2012
The federal indictment named 14 individuals in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine and mariuana and launder drug money
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Monday, August 6, 2012
Fourteen defendants – including an Alpharetta resident – have been indicted for drug trafficking and money laundering crimes after a multi-agency investigation, U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates, and the David G. Wilhelm Organized Crime Drug Enforcement (OCDETF) Strike Force announced in a news release today. A federal grand jury returned two indictments charging the 14 defendants on July 25. The indictments were unsealed on Aug. 1, in conjunction with a sweep aimed at arresting those charged. Today U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan J. Baverman conducted a detention hearing for one group of defendants, and ordered that each defendant be detained. The news release stated that according to Yates, the charges, and other information presented in …
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety. It does not indicate a conviction.
A tip from a Postal Inspector led to a stakeout that resulted in the arrest of two men on drug possession charges on July 10. An Alpharetta detectives got a tip from a U.S. Postal Inspector that a package at a local UPS store contained cocaine. The Postal Inspector retrieved the package form the store and brought it to the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety, where a police dog alerted on the package. It was taken back to the store, where police officers and detectives waited to make arrests. Police waited for the first suspect to collect the package. When the man arrived, he picked up both that package and a box. Once he put the two packages into a car, both he and the driver were arrested. A search warrant was obtained, and police …
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Milton Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Milton Police caught two people accused of shoplifting last week. James Smith of Suwanee was charged with felony theft by shoplifting. On June 11, store security guards at Target saw Smith open 22 Nintendo DS video games, put them in his pocket and try to leave the store. He was arrested, and the merchandise – totaling nearly $435 – was recovered. In a separate incident at Kohls on June 14, police apprehended Tracy Wilson of Cleveland and charged her with felony theft by shoplifting. Police arrived at the store to find that two women were being held by store security. A store employee said both women had taken clothes, shoes and jewelry into the fitting room. Wilson told police she then placed the items in a Kohls shopping bag and left the…
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
A traffic stop on Jan. 26 netted an unlicensed illegal alien and bags of drugs and cash.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Georgia State Patrol troopers and Alpharetta police officers seized $2.8 million worth of narcotics and cash from an unlicenses illegal alien inside Alpharetta city limits on Jan. 26. Troopers stopped a brown Honda Accord and identified the driver as Ignacio Abarca Pineda, who showed them a Mexican driver’s license as identification. The troopers reported that the driver appeared very nervous. The on scene investigation determined Pineda was an unlicensed illegal alien and could not provide any information regarding the ownership of the vehicle. He was placed under arrest for driving while unlicensed. Alpharetta police arrived on scene and assisted with the incident and interview of Pineda. While searching the vehicle after the arrest, …
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
An Alpharetta man had previously been sentenced in the case, which netted 567 kilograms of cocaine and more than $23 million in drug proceeds in the Atlanta area.
A Mexican national who headed operations of a significant Mexican drug trafficking and money laundering cartel was sentenced to 16 years, 8 months in federal prison today, Jan. 4 by U.S. District Judge Richard W. Story. Macedo and his co-conspirators were targets of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation dubbed “Operation Four Horsemen,” which resulted in the seizure of 567 kilograms of cocaine and more than $23 million in laundered drug proceeds in the Atlanta area, according to U.S. Attorney Sally Quinlan Yates. Combined with drug and money seizures in Laredo, Texas, the investigation has resulted in the seizure of 973 kilograms of cocaine, 1,445 kilograms of marijuana, and more than $31 million in drug proceeds. The other…
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4:11 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Hey soccer Moms and mayor. Crime is here in the city. This week alone, we had a fetus in a freezer, domestic carjacking/ agg assault and a major dope king pin charged by the Feds in the city....get you head out of the sand. New leader are needed in the department. more ›