Domino’s delivery driver’s detective work helps cops track down pizza pilferer
On a recent Sunday night, a Domino’s Pizza driver was sent, as a Bibb County sheriff’s report put it, to deliver a $50 order of “various menu items” on Wesleyan Drive in north Macon. When the driver, 26, arrived at the Manchester at Wesleyan Apartments, she knocked on a man’s door. When he answered, she handed him the food. “The male told her he would be right back with the money and closed the door,” a write-up of the Feb. 23 incident noted. “(The driver) waited for some time, but the male did not come back.” The driver did what one might expect. She called the number of the person who placed the order. No one answered, but in the distance she heard a phone ringing. She walked around to the side of the apartment. There on the ground was a ringing phone. “She realized,” the report added, “that was the phone she was calling.” The driver showed the phone to the deputy, who noted in the report that there was “a picture of the suspect on his phone.” The deputy recognized him as a man wanted in a theft at a liquor store. The deputy scrolled the phone’s recent calls and noticed that one of the numbers was a Wendy’s on Riverside Drive, which turned out to be where the 19-year-old suspect worked. The manager there told the deputy where the suspect lived, which turned out to be in the same apartment complex but at a different apartment number from the one the pizza driver was sent. The deputy knocked on the suspect’s door but no one answered. A theft warrant was to be issued for his arrest.
Dispatches: A man who lives in an apartment in the 3600 block of Mercer University Drive said his girlfriend dropped by one night last month and, as a sheriff’s report noted, “was banging on his door and windows.” The man, 29, called the cops and said he had told the girlfriend “he did not want her there.” Even so, the report added, “she continued banging.” The man said his front window was banged on so much that it busted. The man didn’t wish to press charges. He said he just wanted to “document the incident,” which the deputy did, noting, “I did observe the front window and that it had been busted.” . . . In late January, a woman on Edna Place told the cops she got home from work to find both of her televisions, her stereo and her daughter’s gold watch missing. She said her “male friend” may be the culprit and that “he may be on drugs.”