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September 18, 2014 | northfulton.com | 73,500 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 32, No. 37
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Drug use grows from pills to heroin
Police see rise in usage By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@northfulton.com
Remembering 9/11 The Holcomb Bridge Middle School 8th grade chorus performs at the Roswell Sept. 11 ceremony. Many schools and community groups remembered the victims of the attacks. See story, Pages 16 & 17. SHANNON WEAVER/STAFF
ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Johns Creek resident Chelsea Bennett, 20, injected heroin March 3 and immediately began having seizures. She had overdosed. Milton resident Dean Riopelle, 53, died in a similar fashion in September 2013. Both took heroin and both died of it, becoming two of a growing number of heroin users overdosing. According to police, heroin is becoming a more common danger in the suburbs than
Warning signs of heroin use • Performance decrease • Lack of personal care and hygiene • Reckless tendencies • Withdrawal from friends • Needle marks • Slurred speech • Hostility • Possession of drug paraphernalia in the past – today, it is easily accessible and very pure, more pure than it has ever been before.
See HEROIN, Page 34
Suspect arrested in smoke shop crime spree Police say crew targeting tobacconists wide-ranging By JONATHAN COPSEY and HATCHER HURD NORTH FULTON, Ga. – Police say they have a suspect in custody who may be involved in as many as 30 storefront break-ins in 22 metro cities – several of them in North Fulton-Forsyth. The kicker is the crooks appear to be targeting exclusively cigar stores and vape shops. One of the early cigar stores hit was Blue Havana II, owned by Jim Luft-
man. And it was Luftman who alerted law enforcement agencies just how far-ranging crooks were operating, hitting only tobacconists and with the same M.O. When Luftman pulled into his strip MICKENS center store on Ga. 9 just north of Alpharetta, Sept. 3, he saw his glass front door shattered and his heart sank. “I knew someone had broken into my store. I was just worried how much they took,” Luftman said.
Fortunately, they did not touch the tobacco products. All the intruders were interested in was the cash register, which had its computer terminal cut and was gone. “On the security camera, you could see the guy get in and get out in less than 30 seconds,” Luftman said. Security video outside showed a vehicle approach the storefront about 2 a.m. and make one pass slowly by. Then it came around a second time and the perpetrator got out of the car with a huge rock. He flung it through the glass door, bouncing once off the floor and
See CIGAR, Page 35
A security camera caught the image of the burglar throwing a rock through the glass door and coming into the Havana Blue II cigar store. Police say they have that man in custody now.
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