Crime & Safety

Facebook Leads to Arrests, Man Steals Electricity to Grow Pot

Here are some top Patch headlines not far from Roswell.

 - Canton Patch

Four people have been arrested in connection with  on Rampley Trail in Waleska, the  said today.

Store video released Wednesday showed four people leaving the Canton  after using the victim's debit card just two hours after the incident.

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And it was that footage that led authorities to the suspects, said Lt. Jay Baker, spokesman for the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office. 

"Shortly after the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office released the video, detectives began to receive information on their Facebook page about the identities of those on the video," he said. "Investigators were able to determine that two of the suspects lived at an apartment complex in Canton."

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When investigators went to the apartment, which Baker did not name, all four suspects from the video were there, he said.

 - Alpharetta Patch

A 35-year-old Canton man was charged last week with a felony and a misdemeanor after Alpharetta police were told he had been excessively texting juveniles and providing one girl with alcohol.

A Hopewell Plantation mother said a man had been excessively texting and calling her two juvenile daughters, calling one daughter 17 times and the other 20 times in less than 24 hours. The mother called police when she saw a vehicle pull into her driveway at 4:15 p.m. on June 12.

Dominic Marcus Camargo, 35, of Canton, was arrested and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor (felony) and purchasing alcohol for a minor (misdemeanor). He remained in Fulton County Jail in lieu of $1,500 bond.

 - South Cobb Patch

While investigating a claim from Greystone Power Corp. of stolen electricity, Cobb Police found about 450 marijuana plants growing in an Austell home on Ling Drive.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, electricity had been stolen since May 25 after someone spliced into an underground power line.

Police arrested 42-year-old Dung Hoang, the renter of the Austell house, at his own home in Lithia Springs on Friday. On Wednesday night, he remained in Cobb County Jail without bond, stated the AJC report. Hoang was charged with two counts of manufacturing and possession of marijuana, one count of drug trafficking and one count of theft of services.

Police estimated the plants would have produced about 100 pounds of the drug, which can sell for as much as $1,000 per pound, the report stated.


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