Theft of $10 cooler gets 3 jailed for shoplifting

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Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Friday, November 14. 2008
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A $10.70 cooler allegedly shoplifted from the Flying J Travel Plaza may end up costing three local people a whole lot more.
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Disagreement leads to pair's arrest

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Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Friday, November 7. 2008
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A man who called Commerce police following an argument with his girlfriend may have had second thoughts.
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Snatch-and-grab thief gets $1,000 necklace

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Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Wednesday, November 5. 2008
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Seventy-five percent off wasn’t a deep enough discount for one shopper at the Zale’s Diamond Outlet at the Tanger Factory Outlet Center.
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One injured in Friday morning wreck

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Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Friday, October 31. 2008
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A Commerce man was transported to a local hospital Friday morning after a wreck at the intersection of U.S. 441 and Georgia Highway 98 at about 10:30. [ Full Story » ] 

Copper thieves do $50,000 in damage

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Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Friday, October 31. 2008
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Copper thieves made off with a quantity of copper and did an estimated $50,000 in damage to a Commerce building last week.
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21-year-old faces kidnapping charge

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Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Wednesday, October 29. 2008
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A 21-year-old Commerce man racked up kidnapping, motor vehicle theft and 10 lesser charges last Wednesday night (Oct. 22) before his mother talked him into ceasing a high-speed chase.

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15-year-old steals mom's car, winds up in big trouble

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Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Monday, October 27. 2008
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A 15-year-old girl who allegedly stole her mother’s car after an argument faces a host of charges after she nearly ran over a Commerce police officer.

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Group calls the cops because their neighbors called the cops

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Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Friday, October 24. 2008
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Some State Street residents called the police on their neighbors for calling the police on them.

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Bank robbery suspect captured Thursday

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety, Top Stories
Thursday, October 23. 2008
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Officials arrested a South Carolina man Thursday afternoon about a half hour after the armed robbery of the Banks Crossing branch of Northeast Georgia Bank following a chase that began in Commerce and ended in the median of U.S. 441 a few hundred yards from the Athens-Clarke County line.
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Woman calls police because young son won't listen to her

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Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Wednesday, October 22. 2008
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A 30-year-old Commerce woman called the police because her son “would not listen to her.”

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