Name Droppin’
An officer observed a vehicle make an illegal left turn out of the West Parking Deck onto Paulding Avenue on March 28 at 9:20 p.m. The officer conducted a traffic stop and could smell the overwhelming odor of cologne and air freshener. As he got closer he could smell suspected marijuana. The officer asked for the driver’s license and then asked him to step to the rear of his vehicle. The officer asked why his car smelled so strongly of cologne, and he said it was his air fresheners that he’d just put in. The officer then asked if anyone had been smoking marijuana in the car and the driver stated no. Since he smelled marijuana the officer requested another car and told the driver they would need to conduct a search of his car. The driver said that he was told that if he got into any trouble with the campus police to tell the officers that he knew certain members of the department, whom he named. The officer told him that if he had any illegal drugs in his car, that it was on him. The officers conducted the search and found a clear plastic bag containing marijuana. The driver was placed under arrest.
U Are Doing it Wrong.
On March 29 at 12:22 a.m., an officer observed a car making high-speed U-turns in the bus lot on Busbee Drive at George Busbee Parkway. The officer activated his lights and entered the lot; the car left the parking lot near Brandsmart, disregarded the stop sign, and turned left onto Busbee Drive. The officer requested backup and followed the car into the Studio Plus extended stay on Busbee Drive rear parking lot. When the officer caught up to the vehicle, the driver was missing but the two passengers were inside. The front passenger told the officers that the driver jumped out and ran around the building. The backup officers began searching for him. He was identified and ran through the system, returning as suspended for points and serious violations under 21. After 15 or so minutes of searching, the driver was located and arrested.
Thieves Never Prosper
An officer was dispatched to the ROTC house off of Campus Loop Road on April 3 at 11:48 a.m. in reference to a robbery. The victim told the officer that a black male with short dreads, wearing a white button-up shirt and tan dress pants, riding a red bike, had just taken her laptop. She said the male was biking southbound on Campus Loop Road. The officer asked if she was injured, to which she responded no. He then asked for more details. She said that she was sleeping on a bench that was outside the Science and Mathmatics Building with her laptop under her right arm. She felt the laptop being snatched from her so she jumped up and ran after the male west on Paulding Avenue, past the West Parking Deck and down the hill toward Campus Loop Road. She was yelling for help as she chased him and managed to push him a few times, knocking him from his bike. She then fell down the hill, got up, and continued chasing him. When they got to the ROTC house she pushed him again and he gave her the laptop, saying “Give me back my money.” However, she had never seen him before this incident and didn’t owe him anything. Witnesses confirmed her story, and other officers located the male on Big Shanty Road matching the given description. He was arrested without incident.
