46-year-old Wendy Lynette Beardslee has been missing since October 29th when she was last seen at the Atlanta International Airport.
The Atlanta Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating her.
Wendy is 5’2″, 125lbs, brunette and has blue eyes. The APD is asking anyone who sees her to call 911.
Back in 2009 Curtis McDride of Atlanta was shot in the head and killed. The man who allegedly killed him is Devon Marquis Bell, pictured above.
Bell was identified as the shooter early on in the investigation but murder and battery charges weren’t brought against him until back in April 2012. Bell was arrested on April 19th and is currently out on a $53,000 bond.
Bell, from East Point, is now wanted once again for pointing a loaded gun at someone.
41-Year-Old Eric Brown
Back on June 19th the Atlanta PD was able to secure an arrest warrant on 41-year-old Eric Brown. Brown had been accused of molesting a 13-year-old girl inside a church van as well as at his home.
Brown was employed at Zion Hill Baptist Church on Campbellton Rd in Atlanta when the alleged sexual abuse took place. The story of Brown aired on WSB TV last week and Brown was located and arrested a short time later in North Carolina.
Police are concerned that Brown may have other victims that they don’t yet know about. In addition to working with children at the church he used to run a tutoring business called the Academic Clinic. They are looking into exactly how many children he may have come in contact with at the church.
In addition to the arrest warrant here in Georgia he apparently also has an active warrant for his arrest in South Carolina.
Alexandra Dahm
I’ll have to just come right out and say it. Some bitches just have snakes in their heads. 19-year-old Alexandra Dahm comes to mind.
Early Thursday morning Dahm sent some text messages to a friend after she suddenly went missing from the Connect Lounge on Auburn Avenue including some that said “they will not allow me out of the car” and “several asian men armed with multiple shotguns.” She told her friend that a total of seven men armed with guns kidnapped her and took her to a home in Buckhead.
The friend showed up at the home and spoke with Dahm in the driveway where she said she was afraid to leave and refused to get in his car. That’s when he called 911 and gave them the location.
A perimeter was set up and hostage negotiators showed up along with the SWAT team. SEVERAL HOURS later Dahm walked out of the house. Turns out that nobody had guns and nobody had forced the girl to do anything. As she told police she “may have overexaggerated her text messages.”
Once they arrived at the police station Dahm tried to dump a bag of cocaine in the toilet as well. Heh.
Dahm was lodged in the Fulton County Jail charged with Possession of Cocaine and Tampering With Evidence. Hopefully there will be other charges forthcoming.
Updated 1/1/12 – Alexandra Dahm had a bond hearing Friday and was released from the Fulton County Jail on Saturday morning. She has also been charged with Reporting a False Crime.
Kimberly Arnold
Shortly after midnight on Thursday morning police received a call from a security guard at an Apartment building on Glen Street in Atlanta. He had spotted two children locked in a Cadillac Escalade in the parking lot.
By the time that police got to the scene the two girls had been locked in the car for more than an hour. The children were sweaty and both had dirty diapers when they were removed from the car.
When the mother, Kimberly Arnold, was located she explained that she had just stepped away from the vehicle for a few minutes to make a payment (because I pay all my bills at 1am) but had obviously lied to them. The babies were treated at Children’s Hospital of Atlanta and released to Arnold’s sister, who also happens to be taking care of Arnold’s two older children.
Arnold was arrested and charged with Cruelty to Children and Reckless Conduct. The Reckless Conduct charge was dropped at her bail hearing and the judge let her out on bond with the condition that she not have any unsupervised contact with her children. Arnold, who has been arrested on two prior occasions, doesn’t go back to court until August 2012.
The Atlanta PD has released a sketch of the man they believe to be involved in two rapes that occurred in South Fulton County this past Friday. A spokesperson for the police department says that the attacks happened in a vacant home off of Old National Highway.
The man is described as being 17-19 years of age, black, 5’8″ with a medium build. The victims described him as having a slightly musty odor and he has flat lips. Police also say that it’s possible that he has lazy eye in his left eye.
Recently the United States Marshal’s Service, along with some local Georgia law enforcement agencies, put on Operation Snowman. They checked up on 105 different sex offenders in order to make sure they were complying with the law. During the operation they cleared 40 warrants and made 28 arrests. One of the offenders arrested was 36-year-old Jonathan Broom.
Broom has been charged twice with violating the sex offender registry law. When police checked up on him during the operation he wasn’t where he was supposed to be. They were, however, able to track him to southwest Atlanta.
When police knocked at his door nobody answered but they did see movement inside. One of the officers went around back and saw Broom putting a coat on a little girl. Police and Marshals forced entry into the home and after searching it they found pornographic material.
Broom has been charged with violating the sex offender registry law and police are investigating if any charges will result from his contact with the child in the apartment.
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is usually a pretty hectic day for retailers. It’s hard enough to watch out for the safety of customers and keep things from being broken much less keep an eye out for shoplifters but Sonya Carter and her Uncle Jerry Martin have allegedly hit the Target in Atlanta before and security was keeping an eye out for them this time.
Carter was allegedly using her 11-year-old son as a decoy while she and Martin would stash items in his wheelchair. The last time they were in this particular Target location the pair allegedly got away with two Nintendo Wii consoles. The ill-gotten booty this time around? Three Nintendo games for the Wii they claim they never stole, an electric razor and batteries.
This time around Sonya Carter and Jerry Martin were carted off to the Graybar motel while her son watched. A family member later picked up and took custody of her son.
Carter is charged with two counts of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor, Disorderly Conduct, Conspiracy to Commit Shoplifting and Theft by Shoplifting and is lodged in the Fulton County Jail on $3,500 bond. Martin, who has been locked up in the Fulton County Jail at least three prior times on similar charges, is charged with three counts of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor, Criminal Trespass and four felony Shoplifting charges. He’s being held on $1,000 bond.
41-year-old Terence Alexander, an 11-year veteran of the Atlanta Police Department, was arrested after he physically assaulted his 18-year-old girlfriend. Am I the only one here who finds the age difference just a little bit creepy?
Anyway there is a bit of a back story to this one. The Atlanta Police fired Terence in 2005 after surveillance video caught him slamming a woman to the ground and arresting her for a parking violation at the Atlanta Airport. The woman who was assaulted sued the city of Atlanta and won a $350,000 settlement. Alexander was shit-canned for using unnecessary force but the city’s civilian board overturned the decision and Alexander was rehired even though he had already been reprimanded or suspended without pay 13 times for violating departmental rule.
Flash forward to 2010. When police were called to his apartment this week after the fight with his girlfriend they discovered he had two current outstanding warrants and was already under investigation for a work-related incident and has been stuck on desk duty awaiting the outcome.
Damn, this is one asshole who is really giving the police a bad name. Somebody should slap a bit of sense into the civilian board that told the APD they couldn’t fire him five years ago.
Bennie Pendergrass, a school bus driver in Atlanta, was arrested earlier this week and charged with Child Endangerment and Reckless Conduct after he forgot to drop off a five-year-old boy.
The child was found crying outside the bus driver’s home and police were called. Pendergrass told police that he had no idea the boy was still on his bus after he completed his route for Angel’s Paradise Higher Learning Academy.
Luckily the child wasn’t hurt, or worse.