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Around 1 a.m., a manager asked an officer to remove a 43-year-old man from a bar on North Highland Avenue in Virginia-Highland. He said staffers had repeatedly asked the man to leave, but he refused. The officer told the man to go, and “he grabbed my wrist and turned around, pulling me toward him,” the officer noted. “I said, ‘Atlanta Police, you need to stop resisting and just leave.’ This is when he aggressively grabbed me again, this time by the shirt near my neck. He drawed [sic] back his arm as if to punch me. At this point, I defended myself by throwing my hand in his face, to throw him off balance.” The officer said three or four of the man’s friends surrounded him and put their hands on him. The officer yelled, “Police, don’t you put your hands on me!” Apparently, the 43-year-old man ran from the bar. The officer chased him and tripped him from behind. “He fell and then got back to his feet and squared up with me to fight,” the officer noted. The officer said he doused the man’s face with pepper spray, called an ambulance, handcuffed the man and called for backup. Then the man’s friends allegedly pushed another officer. All four men were charged with disorderly conduct. Police wrote: “All four suspects admitted to being under the influence of alcohol, and the bar staff advised me they had been in the bar since [about 4 p.m.] Saturday evening, eight hours had passed and the group was still consuming alcohol.” (The Blotter Diva must ask: Who kept serving the men booze for eight hours? The Blotter Diva did her time as a cocktail waitress, before her writing career reached its stellar heights. Customers who drink for eight hours straight tend to be a) lousy tippers and b) dangerously drunk. Cut ‘em off!)

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Around 11 p.m. on Peachtree Street, a 66-year-old man stumbled off the curb and directly into oncoming traffic, an officer noted. The driver of a black van slammed on its brakes to avoid hitting the man. The 66-year-old was very drunk, and his breath smelled like gin, the officer noted. He was arrested for “pedestrian in the right of way in crosswalks” and “pedestrian under the influence.” The 66-year-old man’s stuff was turned in to police property: It includes one empty English Market gin bottle, a black comb, a pair of red underwear, two Durex condoms and two Trump moisturizers.

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A man said someone broke into his 1991 blue Honda Accord while it was parked outside his home on Milledge Avenue. He said his car doors were unlocked, and someone stole about 20 books on gaming, “specifically Dungeons and Dragons,” from his car trunk, the officer wrote. The man is 33 years old.

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Around 2 p.m., an officer responded to a call about a prowler at a house on Moreland Avenue. The caller said a woman in a red knit cap and tan pants was pulling on the door handle and walking around the house. En route, the officer spotted a woman fitting that description on Moreland Avenue. “[She] was walking kind of fast, throwing her arms about wildly and throwing what appeared to be a green lighter from her left hand into the yard of a church. …” the officer wrote. “As I exited my vehicle, I could see her cargo pants pockets were weighed down by some type of heavy object.” After a brief struggle, the woman was handcuffed. The officer asked: “What’s your name?” “Judy Garland,” she replied. No weapons were found on her. “In her cargo pants pockets I felt what I believed was a rather large amount of coin currency,” the officer wrote. Police checked the house on Moreland Avenue — no signs of forced entry or foul play. The woman who calls herself Judy Garland was arrested for littering. The officer checked the woman’s wallet and read the name on her Georgia ID card: first name: Judy. Last name … isn’t Garland. The woman, age 47, went to jail.

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A possible kidnapping victim contacted police. The 34-year-old man said he finished his job working at the stadium for an Atlanta Falcons game, and he went to cash his paycheck. He said around 2 a.m., three men jumped him, threw him into a truck and beat him until he was unconscious. He said when he woke up, he was lying under a bunch of sheetrock and trash in an abandoned apartment on Ashby Street. He said the men took his money ($50 cash and a money order for $160) and his backpack — but they didn’t take his wallet. Also, the man said he’d been drinking, and after he woke up, he tried to drink a beer but couldn’t, so he threw away the beer in a field. Then, he took a bus home to his apartment on Thomasville Boulevard. The man complained of injuries to his head, shoulder and legs. Medics examined him — they said his wounds appeared old and already healing. Police spoke with the man’s girlfriend. She said this type of thing always seems to happen to her boyfriend on his payday.

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On Holly Street, a 47-year-old man said “Butch” approached him and they argued. (Butch is his ex-girlfriend’s new man.) Then, he said, his ex-girlfriend snuck up behind him with a hammer and struck his face. He said his ex-girlfriend took his wallet, which contained $100 cash and his ID. Medics arrived, but the man refused treatment. The man told police: “Go arrest them. They stay at a crack house.” “He was concerned about his money,” the officer wrote. The man said Butch and his ex-girlfriend stay at a blue house, and offered a possible address on Madrona Street. The man asked: “Why can’t you take me there?” The officer said: “It would just irritate the situation.” The officer asked: “Is there anything that makes the house unique?” The man replied: “I’ll show you if you take me there, it’s a blue crack house. (The Blotter Diva must note: Nothing in the police report indicates the officer ever went to the alleged crack house.) No charges filed.

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An officer was patrolling Springdale Road. He said a man came up to his patrol car and said, “Boo!” The officer asked: “Do you have any illegal drugs on you?” “No,” the man said. The officer asked: “Can I search you?” “Yes,” the man said. So the officer searched him and found .4 grams of suspected marijuana in the man’s pocket. The man, age 24, went to jail.

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A security guard said a patient escaped from Grady Memorial Hospital. Initially, the male patient was admitted to Grady’s psychiatric ward, but he was moved to another floor for observation. “[The patient] was supposed to be monitored by Grady security,” the officer wrote. “[The patient] removed his restraints and left the hospital.” The patient is mentally ill, suicidal and believed to be HIV-positive, according to the police report. The patient wore jeans and a black T-shirt with a red stripe on it. The officer wrote, “He has a long white beard and he wears glasses.”

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A woman said she was carrying her daughter’s band instrument (a saxophone) when she stopped to buy some marijuana at a drug dealer’s house. She said the next day, she realized she had left the saxophone at the drug dealer’s house. So she went back to get it. She said another man answered the door, and he had an “attitude.” This man told her that he didn’t take the saxophone, and she left with it yesterday. The woman went back home to look for the saxophone, but didn’t find it. So she went back to the drug dealer’s place again. This time, he was there. She said the dealer called her a “bitch” and said he didn’t have the saxophone. She said he pushed her head as she walked away. The woman called police, and a report was filed.

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A 29-year-old woman said she works as an administrative assistant at a synagogue on Ponce de Leon Avenue. She said she talked to her boss, a rabbi, because she hadn’t been paid the money owed for doing her job. She said the rabbi got agitated and said he no longer needs her services — because he can perform her duties himself. The woman said she wanted to get her software off the computer, because the synagogue didn’t pay for it. She said they could only use it while she still worked there. The rabbi warned her not to take the software, she said. Then, the rabbi pushed her, knocking his head into her chest, she said. Then the rabbi grabbed both her arms (hard enough to leave scratches) and pushed her again, she noted. The woman said she left, grabbing the computer on the way out. She said she told the rabbi she would remove the software at home, and return the computer. She walked outside and got into her car. She said the rabbi got into his car and blocked her in the parking lot — then the rabbi got out and grabbed her car keys. The woman said she then returned the computer to the rabbi — and he returned her car keys and pushed her a third time.

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A man said he and his wife went to bed around 10 p.m. Shortly after midnight, he said he heard someone knocking on the guest bedroom door. He asked: “Who’s there?” The suspect replied: “It’s Tom Foolery.” The man said he didn’t know Tom Foolery. The suspect replied, “It’s me, Tom.” The man said he heard the front door close — and he immediately called police. Officers showed up and searched the area, but couldn’t find this Tom Foolery. So police left.

Around 2:30 a.m., the man said someone rang his front doorbell. The man asked: “Who’s there?” The suspect repeatedly said: “It’s me, Tom – and I’m sorry.” The man said “Tom” eventually left in a car. The man walked outside and discovered his house keys were on the doormat. He said he kept these keys in the front console of his Lexus, which was in the garage. He described “Tom” as wearing black pants and a black T-shirt with writing on it. He said he’s never seen this “Tom” guy before.

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An officer saw a driver make an illegal turn onto East Paces Ferry Road. “The [car] then pulled into my lane going the wrong way,” the officer wrote. He said the car stopped about 10 feet in front of his patrol car, and the female driver got out and flagged him down. The officer asked: “What’s the matter?” The woman replied, “I’m lost and I need directions. I know what I did was wrong, but I just saw you and needed your help.” The officer wrote, “I asked her where she was going and she started telling me about some story of how she was blamed for something her father did.” The officer asked: “Where are you going?” The woman said Atlantic Station. So the officer gave her directions to Atlantic Station. The officer said the woman started to cry and asked whether he could escort her to Atlantic Station. “No, I can’t give you an escort and that location is out of my zone,” the officer said. The woman allegedly replied, “I am a Clayton County Corrections officer and I have followed directions my whole life and not this time. You can give me a ticket, I don’t care.” She and the officer struggled. “She was laying on her back with her legs up in the air, kicking me,” the officer wrote. So he pepper-sprayed her. She yelled, “It’s a motherfucking game!” She was arrested for simple assault and battery.

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At a grocery store on Ponce de Leon Avenue, a 32-year-old man allegedly took two strip steaks (worth $27.14) and tried to leave the store without paying. He ran, but security guards stopped him. The man wore khaki shorts and has “Fuck Dem Pigs” tattooed on both arms. He was arrested for shoplifting. At the jail, police itemized the man’s belongings: one pair of black-and-white shower slippers and one paperback book titled How to Expand Love, authored by the Dalai Lama.

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On Ashby Terrace, a 54-year-old man said he was watching football when his live-in girlfriend got mad because he was watching TV. According to the man, she said: “You better turn off that television or else I’ll mess you up.” He said she had been drinking large amounts of alcoholic beverages all day.

He said the girlfriend went into the kitchen, returned with a can of green beans and threw it at his head. The green-bean can hit his face, causing a cut, he said. Then, he said, she started “going crazy.” He said she pulled a large mirror from the bedroom dresser, and it fell on her own leg. The mirror broke, causing a deep cut on the girlfriend’s thigh. The girlfriend, age 45, was arrested for aggravated assault.

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A woman walked into a bar on North Avenue and told employees she was being followed and she was afraid. She had an IV on her arm and a heart monitor. A police officer asked: “What’s going on?” “She said she left Crawford Long Hospital because her boyfriend poisoned her IV, and when she unplugged her IV, she started feeling better, so she left,” the officer noted. “While leaving, she observed her boyfriend and several of her boyfriend’s friends chasing her.” Grady medics arrived at the bar and said the woman is an active patient at Crawford Long, so the police officer should get her back there. The officer drove her to the hospital, where she jumped out of the patrol car and said she was “not going back there.” So the officer arrested her, handcuffed her and got her back to the hospital. Crawford Long security guards agreed to stay with the 33-year-old woman until she is released.

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At an apartment complex on Piedmont Avenue, a security guard said a man with a handgun was threatening to shoot him. Several Atlanta police units arrived and arrested the man, age 36. The security guard said the man came into his apartment and threatened to shoot him if he didn’t tell the people above the man’s apartment to be quiet.

The reporting officer wrote, “I have had contact with [the man] in the past. During the last incident, [the man] complained that the people above his apartment were stalking him and had planted a computer chip into his head to conduct experiments on him. [The man] also stated President Bush raped him because they had an argument about Hurricane Katrina.”

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A 25-year-old man said he was leaving a Clark Atlanta football game when a man approached him. He said the man pulled out a machete and told him to give up his money. The 25-year-old said he fought with the Machete Man — and got cut several times on the forehead. Machete Man was unable to get any of the 25-year-old man’s stuff.

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Items in the Blotter are taken from actual Atlanta police reports. The Blotter Diva compiles them and puts them into her own words.