Crime & Safety

Safety Appreciation Week Brings More Crime News

The last week has seen Smyrna connected with news of a murder, a multi-million dollar burglary, a series of vehicle thefts and illegal immigrants firing on police.

Yes, it’s Public Safety Appreciation Week in Cobb, but the bad guys keep finding their way into the headlines these days.

On Monday, three illegal immigrants who called Smyrna home were arrested after leading police on a car chase and firing at a state trooper. The three, Arturo Aceves Ramirez, 22, Jose Salvador Vera Lule, 28, and Edgar Ortega Maldonado, 35, are being held without bail in a Cherokee County jail on a variety of charges.

According to the Atlanta-Journal-Constitution, Maldonado, “was deported from the United States in December 2009 and obviously has returned.” He was charged with possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and party to a crime of aggravated assault on a police officer.

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According to the newspaper report, the other two men were each charged with criminal attempt to commit murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and aggravated assault on a police officer.

Also Monday, Smyrna City Councilman Wade Lnenicka reported that there has been a rash of car break-ins in and around the City’s Ward 6. The main areas affected are “bounded by the railroad line on the east, South Cobb Drive on the west, the Ridge Road neighborhoods on the south and the Concord Road neighborhoods on the north,’’ according to the councilman.

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Late last week, four Smyrna residents, including a mother and her two sons, were taken into custody in connection with the $2.8 million jewelry store heist in Cumming.

And it was a week ago today that released details of the arrest of a Smyrna man and woman charged with felony murder, malice murder and aggravated assault in the stabbing death of a Smyrna man on Teasley Drive. The murder was allegedly committed in the late evening hours of Sept. 26.


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