Sippin' and Strollin' at the Smyrna Wine Stroll
About 400 people participated in the 2012 Smyrna Wine Stroll Saturday.
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Smyrna Man Found Guilty of Stealing Houses
Prosecutors say Harris would change the locks on foreclosed houses, pose as the landlord and lease them to unknowing tenants.
A Cobb County jury has found John Eugene Harris of Smyrna guilty of 34 counts of offenses ranging from burglary, forgery, theft by taking and racketeering. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Thursday that Harris’s company New Life Granted was operating a house-stealing scheme in which he posed as a leasing agent for homes that were in foreclosure and leased them to unknowing renters. Smyrna-Vinings Patch could not find any information about New Life Granted outside a Better Business Bureau listing giving the business an F due to concerns about New Life Granted's industry and insufficient background about the business. Harris, who represented himself at the trial, said the idea behind his company was to find homes he thought were …
UPDATE: Report Confirms Sexting Incident Took Place at Campbell High School
Smyrna police arrested a 17-year-old after they say he sent lewd photos to a juvenile student at school.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Campbell High School Student Arrested for Sexting
A police report confirms the incident took place at school.
UPDATE: A police report Smyrna-Vinings Patch obtained from Cobb County Juvenile Court confirmed that the incident took place at Campbell High School. A juvenile student received the photos from the 17-year-old via text message. A friend of the juvenile saw the photos and reported the incident to campus police. Patch orginally reported that three juveniles were involved in the incident, however the police report only lists one juvenile. A representative from the Cobb County School District could not comment on the incident because it involves pending disciplinary action. May 15: A Smyrna high school student has been arrested and charged with obscene material, a misdemeanor, after Smyrna police say he texted lewd photos to three juvenile …
Monday, May 14, 2012
Injured Smyrna Police Officer Shouldn't Need More Surgery
The Smyrna Public Safety Foundation is accepting donations for Cpl. Gene Crawford, the Smyrna motorcycle officer struck in a hit-and-run accident Tuesday, May 8.
Almost a week after being struck by a car while on duty, Smyrna police say Corporal Gene Crawford is in good spirits and isn’t expected to need more surgery. Crawford, a Smyrna motorcycle officer and 29-year-veteran of the department, was heading northbound on South Cobb Drive near Ridge Road Tuesday, May 8 when he was struck by a vehicle driven by Jennifer Karen Cook, 21 of Chamblee, after she failed to yield when making a left turn. Cook fled the scene and Crawford radioed to dispatch that he’d been in an accident. The driver was ultimately apprehended by Smyrna police and charged with hit and run, serious injury by a vehicle and failure to yield to left turn. Crawford sustained two broken ankles, a broken leg and a cracked hip in the …
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Members of Smyrna Counterfeit Ring Sentenced to Prison
The operation was based out of a Smyrna laundromat where undocumented immigrants could purchase counterfeit identification.
Four members of a counterfeit document ring based in Smyrna were sentenced to federal prison Wednesday on charges of conspiring to produce fraudulent documents. Ruben Osorno Altamirano, 31; Jose Luis Israel Legoretta Castillo, 31; Juana Hernandez Fonseca, 40; and Jose Molina Vasquez, 33 received sentences ranging from 10 months to two year in prison plus two years supervised release. All the men are from Mexico. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said in a press release that the men ran a counterfeit identification operation out of a Smyrna laundromat where they sold customers fake social security cards, permanent resident cards and other forms of identification. “These defendants ran an operation that enabled many illegal aliens to get …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Smyrna Motorcycle Officer Struck On South Cobb Drive
The driver has been identified as 21-year-old Jennifer Karen Cook.
UPDATE: Officer Michael Smith, Smyrna Police Department's public information officer, said Corporal Gene Crawford was in good spirits, but a substantial amount of pain Tuesday night after being struck by a car while on patrol. He is scheduled for surgery Wednesday. UPDATE: Smyrna police have identified Jennifer Karen Cook, 21, as the driver who struck and injured a motorcycle officer Monday afternoon. Cook has been arrested and charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor: hit and run, serious injury by a vehicle and failure to yield to left turn. She is being detained at Smyrna City Jail and bond has been set at $25,000. Corporal Gene Crawford sustained two broken ankles, a broken leg and a fractured hip in the accident. UPDATE: The …
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5:47 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Corporal Crawford, as a Smyrna resident and a fellow a Harley rider my wife and I rode with you last year in support of Officer Minyard. It was a great ride. I appreciate all you do for the City and hope you recover quickly. Dennis Barlow more ›
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Smyrna PD Releases Detour Maps for Spring Road Closures
Both of Spring Road's westbound lane and one eastbound lane will be closed this weekend while workers install a pedestrian bridge.
Both of Spring Road's westbound lane and one eastbound lane will be closed to traffic this weekend while workers install a pedestrian bridge. Smyrna police have created two detours to reroute traffic around the construction site. Smyrna police will be posted strategically near the site and along the detour routes to direct traffic.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
3 More Charged with Marine's Murder
Three other men join Sean Hall in the Cobb jail in the death of Zach Gamble.
Four men now are charged with murder in the death of Iraq war veteran Zach Gamble. Cobb County police arrested Arthur Lynell Batchelor, 37, of Acworth, Tarell Winston Secrest, 36, of Marietta and Jason Scott Hill, 35, of Marietta on Tuesday, police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said in a news release. (Jail booking records list Hill as a Woodstock resident.) Each is charged with committing felony murder, aggravated assault and aggravated battery against Gamble, a 34-year-old Marine veteran from Acworth who police say suffered a fatal beating early March 25 after a party at the Concord Crossing Apartments in Smyrna. Sean DGene Hall, 38, of Mableton was arrested Monday on the same charges in Gamble’s death. The arrests follow more than a month …
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Mark
4:31 pm on Sunday, May 6, 2012
Since joe joe is God he must know or was present at the murder to be so Assured of himself ...he should be arrested too ... How come he hadn't come forward to the police to tell them Exactly what happened if he knew so much about art and his intentions more ›
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Arrest Made in Zach Gamble's Murder
The Marine from Acworth died April 8 after being assaulted two weeks earlier outside a party in Smyrna.
Mableton man was arrested Monday and charged with the murder of Acworth Marine Zach Gamble outside a Smyrna party March 25. Sean DGene Hall, 38, of the 5100 block of Huntscrest Drive was arrested at work in Cherokee County after more than a month of Cobb County police investigation into what happened to Gamble after he attended a friend’s birthday party at the Concord Crossing Apartments the night of March 24. Gamble, 34, was found lying in the parking lot of the apartment complex about 6 a.m. March 25 after a taxi hit him. The veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq had suffered severe head trauma that had nothing to do with the accident with the cab. Gamble spent the next two weeks unconscious at WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta …
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Bruce
3:35 pm on Saturday, May 19, 2012
I agree with "Call it like I see it" in the above comment. I think we are addressing not only poorly written laws but too much govt. control by nanny govt. About this case specifically: If this teenager did this again to the girls, that would be a different matter. If the girls are upset about this one incident, he should be given a warning and maybe some SENSITIVITY TRAINING (which is what govt… more ›