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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Cobb PD: Second Salon Camera Led to Arrest

Evidence collected in Acworth gave authorities enough cause to arrest the landlord of the Salon Aveune Suites in Northeast Cobb.

The Cobb Police Department arrested the landlord of a Northeast Cobb salon after evidence uncovered at another salon owned by the man gave authorities cause to press charges. Mark Allen Storch, 54, was arrested at the Acworth location of Salon Avenue Suites on Aug. 10. He has been charged on three counts of felony unlawful eavesdropping or surveillance. He is currently being held in the Cobb Adult Detention Center without bond. According to Cobb County Police Sgt. Dana Pierce, investigators at the premises in Acworth discovered "electronic recording devices." A similar device was discovered in a suite in the Northeast Cobb business on July 27. Authorities are not releasing the nature of the evidence discovered, but say it was enough for …

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Marietta Men Charged with Marine's Murder

Two Marietta men join two others in the Cobb jail in the death of Zach Gamble.

Four men now are charged with murder in the death of Iraq war veteran Zach Gamble. Cobb County police arrested Tarell Winston Secrest, 36, of Marietta, Jason Scott Hill, 35, of Marietta and Arthur Lynell Batchelor, 37, of Acworth, on Tuesday, police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said in a news release. (Jail booking records list Hill as a Woodstock resident.) Each is charged with committing felony murder, aggravated assault and aggravated battery against Gamble, a 34-year-old Marine veteran from Acworth who police say suffered a fatal beating early March 25 after a party at the Concord Crossing Apartments in Smyrna. Sean DGene Hall, 38, of Mableton was arrested Monday on the same charges in Gamble’s death. The arrests follow more than a month…

charles rogers

12:44 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012

Officer Mike Archer of the Cobb County Police is just as guilty of murder as these three individuals as well and the death penalty is appropriate for such scum   more ›

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Cobb Home Invasion Suspects Charged

Three men are being held without bond for Wednesday's shootings in Fox Hills and car chase along Lower Roswell Road.

Cobb Police have identified and charged three suspects in Wednesday's shootings during a home invasion in the Fox Hills neighborhood and a car chase on Lower Roswell Road.  Police Spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce issued a release at 1 p.m. Thursday stating that Quinton Castile Gatling, 26, and Dennis Christopher Ivory, 29, both of Marietta, and Ronald McCall, 27, of Fairburn, are being held without bond at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center.  Each has been charged with burglary, armed robbery and aggravated assault.  According to Cobb Police, three male suspects entered a home in the 200 block of Lamplighter Lane in the Fox Hills subdivision late Wednesday morning, demanding property from the occupants.  Pierce said that two of the three …

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Marietta Pizza Delivery Drivers Help Catch Robber

Cobb Police have arrested and charged 17-year-old Abdul Griffin. Police are seeking the identities of the other two individuals involved in the Pizza Hut robbery.

Two Marietta pizza delivery guys helped track down a suspect accused of robbing the Pizza Hut at 250 Windy Hill Three masked males entered the Pizza Hut and when one of them pointed a handgun at a female employee, she ran from the business, Sgt. Dana Pierce said. In addition to taking the females pocketbook, one of the men hopped the counter and took the cash drawer from the register before fleeing on foot, Pierce said. Chris Albright and another driver were standing outside the Pizza Hut when the three men went inside the restaurant, WSB reports. When the drivers saw the men come out with the cash and guns, they decided to follow them to a house on Dewey Lane. Cobb County Police arrested and charged 17-year-old Abdul Griffin, of Smyrna, …

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Police: Mom Trapped Kids, Took Meth

A woman who lives south of Marietta is being held without bond after a reported armed confrontation with police.

A Marietta-area woman is being held without bond in the Cobb County jail after police say she locked her four children in a room for three days while she went on a meth bender. Yolanda Mendez, 35, was arrested Thursday night at her apartment south of the city limits when Cobb County police checked on the family after her children, ages 16, 13, 9 and 3, did not show up for school for three days, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Mendez threatened officers with two kitchen knives but was taken into custody without hurting anyone, the AJC said, citing police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce. According to Cobb County Sheriff’s Office records, she is charged with four misdemeanor counts of contributing to the deprivation of a minor and two …

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