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A 17-year-old Commerce youth charged with three burglaries shot himself in the shoulder late Tuesday morning in an apparent suicide attempt, according to the Commerce Police Department.
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Santa wasn’t the only person entering residences in Commerce last week.

The Commerce Police Department investigated six burglaries and three other cases of theft during the week of Christmas.
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Commerce police officers are looking for a young black male they say committed an armed robbery at the Broad Street Car Wash Dec. 15.
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Robert “Bobby” Clark, sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death last June of his 6-year-old grandson, could face more charges following the death this week of his wife.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s (GBI) preliminary report of the cause of death cited complications from the June 7 incident at the Clarks’ Troy Street residence in Commerce.
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You know your luck is bad when you’re shoplifting and you run into a cop who knows your name and address.

That’s what happened to Melvin Appleby, 36, of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Commerce, according to the Commerce Police Department. [Full Story »] 

Maybe they should print a warning on alcoholic beverage containers: “Don’t yell or curse at police during or immediately after the use of this product.”

Last week, two Banks County men ended up going to jail after one, while intoxicated, yelled obscenities at police.
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An attempted shoplifting at Ingles went bad when packages of meat fell out of the thief’s pants, according to the Commerce Police Department.

The incident report said a 29-year-old white male store employee confronted a white male he spotted headed for the door “with an obvious bulge in the back of his pants.”

The employee said it was obviously packages of meat, and he ordered the suspect to remove the product, which ripped in the process and fell to the floor. The suspect fled out the front door.

But an alert shopper had noticed what was going on. She told police the suspect pulled a knife and waved it in the employee’s face before exiting.

She called 911 and was able to provide police with the tag number of the vehicle in which the suspect drove away. She noted that another white male and a white female were also in the vehicle.

A warrant will be taken for a Commerce man following an incident at Commerce Cardiology last week.

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