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The school system has already implemented versions of the program. Fulton County Schools Chief Academic Officer Cliff Jones said the third edition of the program is like the newest edition of a textbook.

Fulton County Schools launched the program in 2018 at the prompting of Schools Superintendent Mike Looney. When COVID-19 hit, the need for early literacy education increased.

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North Point employee sought for alleged theft

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta police are searching for a 27-year-old female employee of the Buy Buy Baby store on North Point Parkway for allegedly stealing more than $12,000 through fraudulent transactions.

Reports said the employee, a Marietta woman, is suspected of making multiple false merchandise returns worth more than $12,000 at the store Jan. 13 and Jan. 17 and issuing refunds to her personal debit cards.

Corporate staff discovered the alleged thefts as discrepancies in the company’s expense reports on Jan. 18. Store leadership audited security camera video and found footage of the suspect using another employee’s information to issue herself returns.

When store managers confronted the suspect, she reportedly refused to talk, handed in her keys and left the store.

At the time of the report, there was no indication whether the suspect had been arrested.

Man sleeping in car found with stolen gun

ROSWELL, Ga. — A Roswell police officer responded to a report of a man sleeping in his car at a red light on Holcomb Bridge Road at 3 a.m. on Jan. 29. The man was later found to be a convicted felon in possession of a stolen firearm.

The officer found the vehicle after it pulled off the road on Terramont drive and stopped at an embankment. The man inside was unresponsive, so the

At that time, the officer said the man woke up and “became combative.” The officer also said the man had a handgun in the driver door of the car and smelled of marijuana and alcohol.

The handgun was run through an identification system and came back as stolen. The officer also ran a criminal history on the man and found he was a convicted felon, with active arrest warrants from DeKalb County and Hall County.

Police arrested the man for failure to maintain lane, theft by receiving, driving under the influence, driving with a suspended license and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

Alpharetta man’s car stolen after altercation

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta police reports said a man was found lying unconscious in the street on Willshire Glen in Alpharetta Jan. 14, after receiving reports of possible shots fired in the area.

Police located the man at about 4 a.m. near 2035 Willshire Glen, as he was regaining consciousness and found a minor injury on the left side of his face.

Police learned the man’s vehicle had been taken from the scene after he was attacked. The report also noted that a BMW matching the man’s description had been seen leaving the neighborhood when police arrived on scene.

The man said he didn’t know who could have taken his car and was transported to North Fulton Regional Hospital for treatment.

No suspect has been identified.

Thief takes possession of delivery package

ROSWELL, Ga. — A Roswell woman told police she lost over $5,000 in electronic devices after a FedEx employee gave her package to an unknown man posing as her husband on Feb. 2.

The resident got a phone alert that her package had been delivered but she could not find the package, so she contacted FedEx. The employee told her when they delivered the package to her home on Winnmark Drive, a man approached and said he was the resident’s husband. The employee gave the man the package instead of leaving it at the door.

The package contained four iPhone 14s, each valued at about $1,200. The officers tried to get information on the FedEx employee, but the company would only supply the first name of the delivery driver. The police could not access security camera footage from the area.

Residents lose $7,500 to collection scams

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Scammers pretending to be with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia Power allegedly stole $7,500 from two victims in Alpharetta on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, incident reports said.

Police were told in the first incident that a local business owner was contacted by someone claiming to be from Georgia Power and told his account was delinquent $1,498. The victim was told he owed an additional $5,000 in late fees.

Despite checking his account and seeing no delinquencies, scammers were able to convince the victim to deposit $5,000 in their account via a Bitcoin ATM in Forsyth County.

The second scam occurred at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 1, when a woman received a call from someone pretending to be a Fulton County Sheriff’s deputy. Scammers told the woman she needed to pay $2,500 for failing to appear in court.

After the call, the woman paid the $2,500 via a transfer and was told she would need to do a Zoom call at a later date. It was at this point the victim realized she has been scammed.

No suspect was identified in either case.