Specialists visit Black cemetery ahead of survey

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Macedonia Cemetery, a Black historical cemetery off Medlock Bridge Road, saw visitors Feb. 28 for a preliminary ground penetrating radar survey.

not going to happen,” Rajankar said. He along with board member Vijay Desai and youth coordinator Ramya Shivkumar sat inside the

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Devon Ramey, a geospatial analyst with Nelson Intelligence Solutions, monitored drones aerialmapping the area. Meanwhile, Rauf Hussein, a geotechnical engineer, walked around the cemetery mapping locations using a phone application. Hussein said he has been doing ground penetrating radar (GPR) for a decade.

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Woman suspects nephew stole $3,000 in jewelry

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A Johns Creek woman reported Feb. 28 that she suspects her nephew stole some of her James Avery jewelry, valued at $3,000.

She said her nephew showed up to her residence off Threadstone Overlook Feb. 24 saying he’d just gotten out of Cobb County Jail and didn’t have anywhere to go.

The woman said that he was in jail for something related to a stolen vehicle and that she agreed to let him stay a couple of nights. She said she never left him in the house alone except once when she stepped outside to speak with her landscapers.

On Feb. 28, the woman had to go to jury duty and made plans to drop the nephew in Alpharetta.

When she got dressed, she went downstairs, leaving him upstairs. They left her residence at 6 a.m. When she returned from jury duty at 12:45 p.m., she immediately went back out and returned at 2:40 p.m. It was then that the woman discovered her jewelry missing.

The woman said she had jewelry inside of a bowl on the sink in her master bathroom and jewelry inside a jewelry box on her master bedroom dresser, which were missing. She said she was also missing two Bank of America checkbooks from a cabinet.

The woman said there was no sign of forced entry to her residence but stated she left her back door unlocked because she lets her dog roam freely.

She said nothing was out of place beside her jewelry and checkbooks missing.

The scene was turned over to a detective.

Business owner reports stolen debit card

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The business owner of Eastern Atlanta Behavioral Health in Watkinsville reported to Johns Creek Police Feb. 28 that he was supposed to receive a new business debit card in the mail to his Johns Creek residence off Knollcrest Boulevard.

The report said the debit card was for his business account through Bank South. The man received automated alerts for his business bank account that someone activated the new card Feb. 25. Half an hour later, someone withdrew $400 and then $400 more at a CVS ATM.

The suspect then made a $1.98 purchase at Publix on Holcomb Bridge Road in Gwinnett County, and requested $1,000 cash back.

Police checked the man’s bank statements, which showed $1,801.98 as a total loss to the business account.

The man said he does not know whether someone stole the card from his residential mailbox in Johns Creek.

He also noted he has a cleaning service that last entered his residence Feb. 11.

Mellow Mushroom stores hit with fake credit card

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — An employee of Mellow Mushroom off Medlock Bridge Road reported to Johns Creek Police March 5 that a man attempted to purchase $500 in gift cards with a fraudulent credit card.

The employee said the man came in earlier that day and used a credit card to make the purchase, but the last four digits on the sales receipt for the Visa credit card didn’t match the last four digits of the credit card being used. The employee described the suspect to be a 5-foot-10 White man with black hair.

The employee said he refused to give the gift cards to the man, who then started yelling at him. The man used a passport as identification, the police report said, but the employee didn’t remember the name. The employee was able to cancel the sale transaction and took a photograph of a red Dodge Charger with a Florida tag the man left in.

The employee said he was notified that the same man had attempted to purchase gift cards at the Suwanee and Cumming Mellow Mushroom locations the same day.

The employee also sent police an image of a sales receipt for $400 in Mellow Mushroom gift cards purchased March 4 at the location off New Paces Ferry Road in Atlanta.

The store told the employee that it had the suspect’s name and that the last four numbers of the Visa credit card used for the purchase matches the last four digits of the card on the sales receipt for the Johns Creek Mellow Mushroom location.

Dating site user falls victim to scam

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A man reported to Johns Creek Police March 5 that he paid $800 for a date Feb. 10, but she didn’t show up as planned.

The man used the dating site called “asstok.com” to pay for the date, scheduled Feb. 11 at the Hyatt Place Atlanta off Medlock Bridge Road.

Because his date didn’t show up, the man contacted his bank and reported the $800 as fraud. The man said his bank refunded the money to his account.

Soon after, the police report said the man started receiving threatening text messages and emails from a man who said he would “break his nerves” and that he and his whole family would pay if the man didn’t send $2,500.

The messages continued, the report said, and stated the man’s current home address, known relatives and ex-wife. The individual also sent an image of five beheaded human heads and noted the same thing would happen to him.