Friday, May 18, 2012
Media reports say Hiltner was taken to the hospital for minor injuries, but no police officers were hurt.
UPDATED: Friday, May 18 9:56 p.m. - Jesse Hiltner lead Roswell Police on not one, but two car chases during the early morning of Friday, May 18. The first chase began when police tried to pull Hiltner over for a traffic stop off Holcomb Bridge Road on Old Dogwood Road, near Ga. 400. Police were able to catch him with the use of a stun gun, after he lead them on a chase through a local hotel parking lot and abandoned his vehicle to try to get away on foot, said the Atlanta Journal Constitution. But Hiltner wasn't ready to go to jail quietly. Despite begin handcuffed, he managed to get into the front seat of a patrol car and drive away. Police chased him into Norcross, where he wrecked near Peachtree Industrial and Jimmy Carter boulevards in…
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Roswell Police arrested the suspect, Brent Merrill Kellogg, Jr., on Monday, May 7. He was wanted in Henry County also for probation violation of child molestation.
UPDATED: May 8, 2012 6:06 p.m. - Roswell Police were called to the McDonald's on Holcomb Bridge after a man was spotted looking at pornography on his laptop in the dining room filled with customers, including young children. The restaurant manager told police that when a customer complained to her about the man - later identified as Brent Merrill Kellogg, Jr. - she walked behind the man to confirm he was, in fact, looking at porn out in the open. She told police that the photo she saw on the laptop screen was of a "young girl," most likely in her teens, wearing only a bra. When the suspect spotted uniformed police officers enter McDonald's, he took off toward Roswell Village, but was captured beside Pollo Campero. Per the manager's request…
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A change is coming for North Fulton commuters, says Sandy Springs Police Spokesman Steve Rose. Even though you hear the blaring siren of the emergency vehicle coming up on you, don’t freak out.
Okay, here’s the thing. I know that you’re already saying to yourself “Driving on Ga. 400 couldn’t get much more fun than it is.” Well, it’s going to. Yes. The new reality show called “Flex Lanes” is coming to 400 on May 14. For those of you who are not familiar, let me explain: The following was proposed and put into play by Governor Nathan Deal: Beginning on May 14, a Monday, the southbound lanes from Holcomb Bridge Road south to the North Springs MARTA Station will include the lane, formerly known as the emergency lane, now called the Flex Lane. The emergency lane is that lane all the way to the right which has been in the past, used for emergencies and those wanting to exit onto Northridge from 400 southbound and occasionally, those …
Friday, May 4, 2012
Last Saturday's event at the Roswell Recycling Center collected 334 pounds of unwanted drugs.
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Friday, May 4
The Roswell Police Department collected several hundred pounds of prescription drugs last weekend during the National Drug Take-Back event, April 28. The department collected 334 pounds of potentially dangerous, expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs for destruction. The event helps dispose of medicines which often languish in home cabinets, becoming highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are increasing at alarming rates, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. In addition, many Americans do not know …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Reports say the incident happened Wednesday afternoon.
Roswell Police are still looking for a man they say exposed himself to children on a school bus in east Roswell on Wednesday, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The news outlet reports "an older man in an older-model pickup truck" exposed himself to children in a school bus turning into Terramont subdivision. The bus driver reported the incident to police about 15 minutes after it occurred.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Roswell Police were required to let Mariano Saynez-Ruiz-Duran, a vice consular to the Mexican Consulate in Atlanta, after they pulled him over for speeding and DUI.
Mexican vice consular Mariano Saynez-Ruiz-Duran was pulled over last Friday by Roswell Police for going 91 miles per hour on Ga. 400, only to find he was also driving under the influence, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. But, according to Roswell Police Spokesman James McGee, Alpharetta resident Saynez-Ruiz-Duran was not detained because of his partial diplomatic immunity status. However, he was cited as a "super speeder" for going 91 miles per hour in a 65 miles per hour zone and also cited for a DUI. "We did make contact with the Diplomatic Security Service to verify the driver’s status of immunity," said McGee, noting that Saynez-Ruiz-Duran's wife was called to the scene to drive the car once police let him go. According to the…
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Garden president tells local police chief he’s willing to let five charged in vandalism do community service in the garden.
Don Converse, president of the Dunwoody Community Garden, has opened a door that would allow a Roswell teen and four others arrested and charged with vandalizing the Brook Run Park garden in Dunwoody to perform community service work in the garden. Converse took that step last week when Dunwoody Police Chief Billy Grogan called him and asked him to come to the station. When Converse met with Grogan, the chief told him that the police had identified the suspected vandals who damaged the garden in the overnight hours of March 30-31 as five teenage juveniles. Four are from Dunwoody and one is from Roswell, police say. Chief Grogan asked him if the community garden would be willing to let the teens do community service time working at the …
Monday, April 23, 2012
Victim survived; taken to Grady.
A man was shot outside Auto Service Unlimited in Johns Creek and then driven to a Roswell fire station, Friday night. According to Rosemary Taylor, communications manager for the Johns Creek Police Department, 911 received a call for shots fired around 8 p.m. But when Johns Creek Police arrived at the service station, 9930 Jones Bridge Road, just north of Old Alabama Road, the victim was not at the scene. Shot twice in the chest and leg, he apparently was driven to a fire station in Roswell before being transported to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Roswell Police called the JCPD to let them know the victim had been driven to Roswell. Detectives are investigating the incident.
Police confirm that missing 16-year-old found alive and physically well.
Davis Hodge, a 16-year-old Johns Creek High student who had been missing since Thursday morning, was found alive, safe and in physically good condition, according to the Johns Creek Police Department and the Find Davis Hodge Facebook page. "Davis has been located and is physically well. The police department at his location has been in contact with the Johns Creek PD and is arranging for his return," said a post at around 11:15 p.m. Sunday night. News outlet WDEF.com in Missouri is reporting that Davis Hodge was found in Mississippi. The report states that a search for the teen had been under way in wooded areas of Marion and Grundy counties in Missouri. According to one Facebook poster who said he was in contact with the family, Hodge was…
Davis Hodge found safe Sunday after massive Facebook and Twitter outreach.
***UPDATE, Monday, 2 p.m.: News outlet WDEF.com in Missouri is reporting that Davis Hodge was found in Mississippi. The report states that a search for the teen had been under way in wooded areas of Marion and Grundy counties in Missouri.*** "We're way past the point of the milk carton these days," says Shellee Hale, a nationally known victims advocate, when discussing the impact that social media played in the case of missing Johns Creek teen Davis Hodge. The 16-year-old Johns Creek High School student was found safe and OK Sunday evening, apparently at a location five hours from Atlanta, after being last seen Thursday morning. Hale, at the request of Hodge's parents Penn and Cynthia Hodge, launched the Find Davis Hodge Facebook site …
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