Naked Man Surprises Homeowners on Back Porch

The following information was supplied by the Roswell Police Department. It does not indicate guilt or a conviction.

A Creekside Court homeowner in Roswell was surprised to find a completely naked man on his back porch recently. The homeowner told Roswell Police officers he did not know the man, also a Roswell resident, or why he might be there. Unsure of whether the naked man would come willingly, the first arriving officer drew his Taser and asked him to put his hands on his head to be handcuffed, to which he complied. Evidently, no clothes were found nearby, because the homeowner had to supply the police officers with a blanket to cover the man so they could transport him to the Roswell Detention Center. The naked man was charged with public indecency. The police report does not say whether alcohol or drugs were a factor in the incident.

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Prostitute Evicted from Local Hotel Room

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A local hotel called Roswell Police after watching a number of different men enter and quickly leave the same room - within a short period of time. Hotel staff told police that during the evening of Tuesday, June 5, men had been entering the lobby "looking lost" and after a chat on their cell phones, made a beeline for the same room. When officers went to check the room they found a woman alone. She invited them in to "look around" and police found several used condoms in the trash can. At that point, the Roswell woman quickly confessed to being a prostitute - spilling her story of having to care for five children and how an acquaintance introduced her to a man who lured her with the promise of "a way to make some quick money." After each…

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Inappropriate Text Messages Sent to Local Teen by Adult

The following information was supplied by Roswell Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

Roswell Police were called to the home of a local teen whose mother found seemingly innapropriate text messages on his phone. The mother told police that she doesn't know the person texting her 14-year-old son, or whether they are male or female. According to the police report, officers read text messages, which clearly indicated the boy's age and the fact the texts were sent by an adult. The report did clarify that no sexual remarks had yet been made by the adult over a 15-hour text conversation, but it did appear to be heading in that direction. Police issued a case number for the incident and turned it over to a detective.

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Shotgun-Wielding Man Allegedly Held Up Roswell Resident

The following information was supplied by Roswell Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

Roswell Police are still looking into an alleged attempted armed robbery at a residence off Bowen Road recently. A Roswell resident told police he and his girlfriend were in his garage working on his vehicle late in the evening when a man carrying a pump-style shotgun approached him from behind and said "don't move." After his girlfriend ran into the house and he had ducked behind the vehicle, the suspect ran off down Bowen Road toward Jones Road, the victim told police. The suspect was decribed as an African American male wearing black pants and an oversized black polo-style shirt, in the police report. Police have listed the case as "active" and are still investigating the alleged incident.

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Aunt Charged for Leaving 6-Year-Old in Car

The following incidents were provided by the Roswell Police Department; they do not indicate an admittance of guilt or conviction.

Roswell Police charged an Alpharetta woman with reckless conduct after the woman left her six-year-old niece in the car while running into Walmart. The woman told police, who paged her over the store intercom, that she had brought her niece and sick three-year-old nephew to the store to pick up medicine for the boy, but had left the young girl in the car when she wouldn't stop crying. She told police she had only been in the car for about 10 minutes. For questions about this police blotter, contact editor Christine Foster.

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Roswell Police Blotter: July 10-17

An overview of incidents in Roswell last week.

The following arrest information was supplied by Roswell Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. A Roswell parishioner was upset to find someone had stolen the catalytic converter from his 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche while he was attending a local church service at Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church last Saturday, July 16. He made the discovery after starting the vehicle and "hearing a loud sound coming from the exhaust." When he checked the undercarriage of the vehicle he found the converter was gone. The man told Roswell Police he was sure the converter was stolen while he was in church since the car had not made the loud sound on his drive to Roswell from College Park. For questions about this blotter, email Christine …

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Roswell Police Blotter: June 5-11

A condensed list of incidents within the city last week.

The following arrest information was supplied by Roswell Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. An Alpharetta resident was given a citation for littering in Roswell by a Roswell Police officer on June 9. The man had been sitting in his Mercedes in front of the Shell station on Alpharetta Highway when the officer saw him throw his receipt out of his window. When the officer confronted the man, he responded with, "You must be bored." He pointed to the other trash in the area. But the officer hadn't seen who had thrown any trash other than the receipt, so the man then told the officer, "Just write me a ticket," to which the officer responded, "Okay," according to the police report. For questions about this blotter, email …

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Roswell Police Blotter: May 23-29

A condensed list of incidents within the city last week.

The following arrest information was supplied by Roswell Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. It was a graduation prank gone wrong when a group of seniors at Blessed Trinity High School were caught toilet papering the school on May 24. Roswell Police were called to school grounds by neighboring residents who had seen a “group of suspicious” people headed that way. Once police arrived to find the school covered in toilet paper, the pranksters took off, according to the police report. Though some students stopped running when told to do so, several still attempted to escape by jumping in their cars and fleeing the scene. The mad dash to leave the area even required one officer to jump out of the way in order to avoid being …

Roswell Police Blotter: May 16-22

A condensed list of incidents within Roswell over the past week.

The following arrest information was supplied by Roswell Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. A local resident called the Roswell Police Department last Saturday, May 21, when he suspected his ex-girlfriend had hacked into his Facebook, e-mail and personal phone data accounts. The man told police he first noticed the electronic breech when an unexplained post showed up on his Facebook profile insinuating he used drugs. Next, he realized that financial records in his e-mail account were missing. Finally, an explicit picture sent to him by his ex-girlfriend on Facebook and downloaded to his phone had also been deleted. The man did not press any charges, but police did document the incident. For questions about this blotter, …

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Police Blotter: Mar. 21-27

A condensed list of incidents within Roswell over the past week.

-A woman called the Roswell Police Department when a man spit on her car and began using “choice words” loudly after she began backing out of her parking space at Wal-Mart on Mar. 21. According to the woman, she pulled out of the space very slowly “as not to frighten the male as she backed up.” The man became very angry, however she couldn’t hear exactly what he was saying since she kept her windows up, she told police. Nearby shoppers witnessed the incident, which ended when the man proceeded to his own car, got in and drove away. The woman took his license plate number down for police and told them she would like to press charges because he spit on her car.   -Angry that his ex-girlfriend took a ride from another guy, a local man stormed…

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