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May 21, 2015 | johnscreekherald.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 19, No. 21
TOWN HALL MEETING:
JC’s ‘The District’ lacking consensus Residents say many questions unanswered By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com
JC’s Rescue 63 EMT perform ‘miracle’ Ivan Bock, right, shakes the hand of all of the Rescue 63 team that had a hand in saving his life. Read more, Page 6. HATCHER HURD/STAFF
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The May 12 town hall meeting on proposals for the city’s central business district seemed to raise more questions about the concept than it answered for the 60-plus residents who came. Meeting at City Hall, councilmembers came down from the dais (although Councilmen Steve Broadbent and Lenny Zaprowski were out of town) to
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try to bring the project into focus and clear up any misunderstandings so far. After 2.5 hours, it was not clear if they had reached any consensus about The District, the 725-acre area on along Medlock Bridge Road from
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Home invasion, burglary in Newtown area Police say no evidence linking Queensbury, Chartwell crimes By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – A family on Kingshouse Commons in the Queensbury subdivision were held up by three men around 11:30 p.m. Saturday night, May 16, with $50,000 in jewelry reported taken. The same night, a Chartwell subdivision family reported a burglary of their home in which an as yet undisclosed amount of jewelry was reported stolen. Capt. Chris Byers, spokesman for the Johns Creek Police Department, said at this time there is no hard evidence linking the two crimes. But both
crimes are under investigation and are in their early stages. However, the homes are in the same area and both reported jewelry as the primary target. In the home invasion, the residents reported they had been asleep on their deck when the three men approached them from their backyard. One intruder produced a handgun and held the family members at bay, while the other intruders searched the house. No violence was done to any of the victims. “No one was pistol-whipped and no one was injured,” Byers said. In addition to the jewelry stolen dur-
ing the Queensbury robbery, the family reported about $300 in cash was taken. Only jewelry was reported taken in the Chartwell burglary. According to police, a rear window was broken that gave entry into the house. Apparently only the bedroom was searched and that was where the jewelry was taken. Rumors and emails flew over the weekend as people reported conflicting accounts of what happened and where. One woman reported she had heard that the home invaders had beaten one of the residents, but apparently that did not happen.
There was a lot of confusion among area homeowner associations as to just where the crimes took place, with people reporting at least four subdivisions in the area as being “hit.” In addition to Queensbury and Chartwell, some reports erroneously put the crimes in the Mayfair and Anaheim communities. But these were not the case. Since both Chartwell and Queensbury are near Newtown Park and Kingshouse Commons in the Queensbury subdivision backs up to a Newtown Park ball field, many are speculating the same perpetrators are involved and used the park as their base. Again, Johns Creek Police have no evidence any of that, though the time and proximity are not lost on investigators.