Macon couple reports theft of $5,000 cash that cops say wasn’t hidden in safest spot
One morning in mid-June, a husband and wife who live on Gleneagles Circle near Idle Hour Country Club in north Macon realized that overnight someone had broken into one of their cars and a truck.
Nothing was missing from the pickup. But the culprit, who smashed a side window on the car, an Infiniti QX80, hit the jackpot, according to a Bibb County sheriff’s report.
The car, the write-up goes on to mention, had about $5,000 cash inside. Why the money was in the car was unclear. Deputies often remind locals that leaving cash in parked cars is not a good idea. The report said the car’s owner had “tried to hide the money underneath several rugs, but the suspects found it while rummaging.”
Dispatches: There was a disturbance at the McDonald’s on Rocky Creek Road in south Macon the night of June 11. Just after 10 p.m., a deputy arrived and was told by the eatery’s manager that a customer had assaulted an employee. The worker, 16, said she was waiting for a cook to prepare a sandwich for her to eat when the cook’s girlfriend walked in. “She stated that the girlfriend got upset and came behind the counter and struck her while her back was turned,” the deputy’s report said. “She stated that (the girlfriend) continued to strike her so she started fighting her back.” The girlfriend then took off in a car. The cook told the cops her name. . . . Police reports from time to time offer their share of unique descriptions of strange scenes and situations. On the afternoon of June 17, a Bibb deputy was sent to a house on Trammell Avenue in southeast Macon. The call, according to an incident report, was “in reference to a person off medication.” The person, a 26-year-old man, was outside and it was unclear why, but he was, the report noted, “holding a pot of flowers with his shirt off and his pants down.”