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Georgia man says estranged wife sneaked in home through doggy door to fetch candle holders

The Cop Shop column is The Telegraph’s weekly Middle Georgia police blotter.
The Cop Shop column is The Telegraph’s weekly Middle Georgia police blotter.

A Middle Georgia man told the cops he did not want his soon-to-be ex-wife arrested but did want her “actions documented” after she, as he claimed, went into his house without permission.

The incident in question happened Feb. 2 in a wooded neighborhood off Blue Store Road northeast of Forsyth.

According to details in a Monroe County sheriff’s report, the man, 42, said the woman he is divorcing returned to his place and “kicked in the (doggy) access door.”

The woman, 42, then allegedly enlisted the help of the couple’s daughter to crawl through the doggy door and open a “main door.”

The man “further stated that (his wife) entered the residence and took (2) decorative candle holders.”

The sheriff’s report went on to say that the woman had abandoned “the residence and the marriage” two years ago and had apparently not been back before she returned to collect the decorative items.

Dispatches: A Macon woman was jailed in early February on theft and other charges after she allegedly snatched another woman’s $20 knitted hat off her head and refused to return it. According to an arrest warrant, the suspect, 48, made “physical contact of an insulting nature” when she did so. . . . On Feb. 4, a woman who lives on the south side of High Falls Lake in northern Monroe County reported that “a young child” intentionally “threw a basketball at her garage door,” denting the door.

Joe Kovac Jr.
The Telegraph
Joe Kovac Jr. writes about local news and features for The Telegraph, with an eye for human-interest stories. Joe is a Warner Robins native and graduate of Warner Robins High. He joined the Telegraph in 1991 after graduating from the University of Georgia. As a Pulliam Fellowship recipient in 1991, Joe worked for the Indianapolis News. His stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the Seattle Times and Atlanta Magazine. He has been a Livingston Award finalist and won numerous Georgia Press Association and Georgia Associated Press awards.
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