The bee’s knees Alpharetta still undecided on 2023 polling

By SHELBY ISRAEL shelby@appenmedia.com

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta remains undecided on managing its own municipal elections this fall after a March 20 City Council work session yielded no consensus.

The City Council hosted the work session to discuss the 2024 fiscal year budget, as well as the 2023 elections. The 5:30 p.m. meeting was held in the Community Room on the first floor while the council chambers undergo renovations.

Councilmen John Hipes and Jason Binder and Mayor Pro Tem Dan Merkel said they would prefer a Fulton Countyled election.

“I would hope that we would follow

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Police subdue trespasser at neighborhood facility

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — An Alpharetta police officer deployed their Taser to subdue a wanted man found trespassing in the bathroom of an Alpharetta neighborhood’s tennis court Feb. 27, police reports said.

Officers responded to the location on Park Brooke Drive in Alpharetta at 9 a.m. Feb. 27 and were told a male suspect was hiding in the tennis court’s bathroom.

Witnesses reported the man had been seen on the property for several years and had been asked not to hang around the area.

Officers located the man and identified him as a 38-year-old Dunwoody resident who was wanted on warrants by the Roswell Police Department.

The report said the man declined to respond to questioning and was not cooperative. When officers attempted to place the man in custody, he allegedly refused to comply and attempted to escape.

Fearing a physical altercation in the confined space of the bathroom, an officer deployed his Taser to subdue the man and place him under arrest. Once the man was handcuffed and in custody officers located a glass

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methamphetamine pipe in his pocket.

The man was transported to North Fulton Hospital to be medically cleared and was then booked into the North Fulton County Jail in Alpharetta. He was charged with obstruction of law enforcement and possession of drugrelated objects.

Police arrest woman for harassing behavior

ROSWELL, Ga. — A woman called Roswell Police after she said a former coworker chased her in her vehicle March 8, followed her to Garrard Landing Park and stopped behind her vehicle so she could not leave.

When police arrived on the scene, the former coworker had already left. Police said the woman was shaking and visibly scared. She told police the other woman was fired in October but kept returning to her former workplace.

The woman told police she started to leave the office earlier that day when her former coworker arrived. She said the coworker chased after her car, tailgated her and pulled up behind her at Garrard Landing Park. Once the police were called, the coworker revved her engine and left the parking lot.

A witness said he saw a lady in distress calling out for help, and watched another car pull in behind her. As the witness approach, he heard the woman say she called the police and watched the other car speed off.

The woman told police she does not know why her former coworker is fixated on her. Officers told her how to get a temporary protection order against her coworker and left the scene to search for the other woman.

In a March 16 story titled “Milton, Alpharetta address plans for Mayfield Farm,” Appen Media reported Old Rucker Farm is a joint program with Milton and Alpharetta. The City of Alpharetta owns Old Rucker Park & Farm exclusively and solely operates the programs there.

Once officers found the former coworker, they took her into custody. As she was led to the patrol car, the woman began trying to fall to the ground, kicking and wrapping her legs around stair railings. Police took her to North Fulton Hospital because she was hyperventilating, and she was released.

The woman asked to be returned to the hospital later to receive medication. She was returned and released again, then taken to Fulton County Jail.

Vehicle fire reported on Lauren Hall Court

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — First responders were called to a neighborhood on Lauren Hall Court in Alpharetta in response to an overnight vehicle fire.

Incident reports said police and fire officials arrived at the scene at about 1 a.m., March 9, and found a 2015 Chrysler 200 fully engulfed in flames on a home’s driveway. Another vehicle in the driveway sustained some damage.

Police were told the vehicle’s check engine light came on the day before, and security camera footage from the home showed the vehicle’s engine area suddenly catching on fire.