Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Eleven Verizon employees were fired after allegedly admitting they registered as having completed 50 hours of charity work they never performed. The Verizon Foundation offers a $750 matching contribution for employees who volunteer time to charity. In this case, the 11 employees say they agreed to enter the time on behalf of a coworker's registered charity even though they didn't perform any volunteer hours, according to the March 26 incident report. Their coworker helped those unfamiliar with the program, even entering the hours herself on their work computers. Verizon never issued the $9,000 check to her charity that these hours would have generated if they were legitimate. The employee said to be at the center of the attempted fraud …
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
The same man is wanted in connection with a Forsyth County robbery.
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Do you know this man? The Milton Police Department and Crimestoppers Atlanta are asking for help identifying a suspect who broke into the Dollar Tree on Ga. 9 in February. Police are offering up to a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the suspect. He is described as a middle aged white man, 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8, weighing about 230 to 250 pounds, according to a release today by Milton Detective S.W. Hewitt. This suspect is wanted after being caught on security footage breaking into the Dollar Tree at the Deerfield Place shopping center on Feb. 11 at 11:20 p.m. He cut into the store's safe with what appears to be a Makita brand reciprocating saw and took all the cash inside. The accompanying image is a …
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Dollar Tree
5620 Commerce Blvd, Alpharetta, GA
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
A business on GA 9 in Milton might have had the copper coils in its three HVAC units stolen long before they were noticed. On March 14 employees of Emory Johns Creek Physicians learned about the thefts when the manager at Katy's Car Wash, a neighboring business owner told one of the employees she saw only parts remained of the HVAC units, which are at the rear of the building. The employees had noticed the air conditioning was not working on that day. That employee notified her manager, who contacted police on March 15. The business did not have serial numbers for the copper coils, valued at almost $7,000, but only had numbers on the parts left behind, the data plates, compressors and fans. The neighboring business is preparing recorded …
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
A Deer Trail woman wasn't in Virginia when four charges were made on her credit card on Feb. 24. Three times someone used her card in Radford, VA, and once in Fairlaw, VA, spending $456 on her card. Her husband had last used the card in Buford a few days earlier. She reported the fraudulent charges to Milton police on Feb. 25. Her card has been canceled and she notified her bank as well. Bank Employee Victim of Credit Card Fraud Even bank employees can be victims of credit card fraud, as a Milton woman found. The bank employee was notified by the bank's fraud department that her credit card was used for two purchases at a Walmart in Wisconsin totaling on Feb. 23. She immediately notifed Milton police. Identity Thieves Keep Filing Tax …
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
A 57-year-old Alpharetta man was accused of trying to pass a forged prescription for Percocet at Walmart on Windward Parkway on Feb. 17. The pharmacist noticed the prescription did not have the seal from the doctor now required on all prescriptions. She called the doctor's office, who confirmed no prescription was made for the woman named on what the man presented, and the person listed as preparing the prescription hadn't worked at the office for more than a year. The suspect, who was still at the store, was arrested by Milton police and cited for forgery and attempting to obtain dangerous drugs by fraud. Safe Cut Open to Steal Cash from Milton Store More than $2,800 was missing from a safe at the Dollar Tree store on GA 9 in Milton. The …
Thursday, February 16, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Milton Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Milton woman who told police she has never lived or worked in California now has to convince that state she doesn't owe it almost $1,400 in business franchise back taxes. The local resident told Milton police on Feb. 6 that she was contacted by the State of California Franchise Tax Board that she owed $1,377 in taxes and penalties from 2010. The victim learned someone filed a tax return in September 2011 using her identity, but the tax board wouldn't give her any other information. Milton Store Burglarized Overnight Someone broke into a store in Milton overnight on Feb. 4-5 and stole a few hundred dollars that had been left in the cash register. The owner of Madurai Foods, which specializes in catering South Indian homemade meals and …
Sunday, February 12, 2012
The Sunday afternoon incident happened in a townhome within Centennial Village on Hwy. 9.
A 46-year-old Milton man was being taken to Fulton County Jail on his way to being charged in the shooting death of his stepson at 2:15 p.m. today, Feb. 12. "Our suspect's name is Eric Brandon, age 46. He shot his 16-year-old stepson," said Capt. Shawn McCarty of the Milton Police Department. The shooting happened at 3153 Genesis Way in Milton, in the Habitat for Humanity community across from the Target shopping center on Hwy. 9. McCarty said at 5 p.m. that the suspect was on his way to jail. "He is not speaking to us. He will be charged with murder," McCarty said. Both the victim and suspect lived in the home with other family members, but no other family was at home at the time. "There was a friend from next door. He was upstairs when …
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3153 Genesis Way, Milton, GA
Shooting site at the Habitat for Humanity townhome community.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
A Hickory Flat Road woman was gone from her home for just 3½ hours on Feb. 3 only to return home to find glass on her garage door broken and her home unlocked. She was the victim of a burglary. The thief took prescription drugs, a laptop computer, a digital camera and some jewelry from her home. Milton police advised her to let them know if she discovered more items were stolen. Uninvited Guests to Mother's Home Gone, and so is Jewelry An Oakstone Glen woman was away on business when her daughter invited a friend over, but that friend asked some of his own friends over as well. Now more than $14,000 in jewelry is missing from the Milton home. Three diamond rings were among the pieces of jewelry reported to Milton police as stolen on Jan. …
Friday, February 3, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Milton police department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A parking lot argument at Stoneleigh apartments Thursday night involved a handgun, a small baseball bat and a SWAT team, but no one was hurt in the incident. Milton police report that two women were backing their car out of a parking space to head to the store just before 6 p.m. when a car driven by a man and a woman drove up to that spot. After the occupants of the two cars stared at each other, a man in one of the cars allegedly pulled a handgun out of a bag and put it on the dashboard. He then yelled at the other driver to get out of the way. A neighbor walking with two juveniles told the first drive to get back in her car and move, and told the man to drive around her. When the man hollered at her to stay out of her business, she ran …
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1131 Deerfield Pt, Milton, GA
The parking lot incident came to an end with the surrender of a suspect at this location.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Milton police department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A 35-year-old Alpharetta man stopped for speeding now faces drug charges as well. A Milton officer was running speed checks on Birmingham Highway near Wood Road at 12:29 a.m. on Jan. 28 when two vehicles approached at 66 mph. He pulled behind them and when the lead vehicle failed to slow down, he passed the other car and pulled behind it when it stopped. The driver smelled of alcohol, but refused both field evaluations and a breath test–but he did say he should not be driving. The officer reported the driver as saying he had two shots and two beers at Olde Blind Dog. After handcuffing the suspect, the officer reported finding a small plastic bag on the car's floorboard that contained two types of pills. The driver was cited for DUI, …
Kay Tee
1:09 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
I agree with Octavia. As a VERY new homeowner in the Centennial Village community, the mentioning of it being a HFH community is completely irrelevant, and only leaves open an opportunity for the ignorant to conjure up some stereotype about the program. To be quite honest, the article is an unnecessary ripple in the story.....shootings can happen anywhere, but your article in the way it was … more ›