$7,000 cash goes missing in ‘fairly decent’ Macon neighborhood

The $7,000 cash was hidden in a camouflage cellphone case. But it apparently wasn’t camouflaged enough. An east Macon man told a Bibb sheriff’s deputy that on the afternoon of April 20 he had left the cash in the case on the back seat of a white 2014 Hyundai Accent, which was parked in a driveway on Crabapple Place. The report doesn’t note the size of the cellphone case or how that much cash fit inside it, just that the man reporting the theft, a 33-year-old, said he had locked the car’s doors and gone inside a house for about an hour. Crabapple Place is near Riggins Mill Road and Joe Tamplin Industrial Boulevard, between Interstate 16 and U.S. 80 in the eastern reaches of Bibb County. The sheriff’s deputy inspected the car but didn’t see any signs of anyone breaking in. The guy who reported the theft said he realized the money was missing when he took some dogs for a walk and found his phone case by a sewage drain. The deputy’s report said he asked the man “why he would leave $7,000 laying on the back seat. … (The man) stated it was a safe place and he thought they lived in a fairly decent neighborhood.”

Dispatches: On the afternoon of April 22, a Bibb sheriff’s deputy answered a disorderly conduct call at Parish on Cherry St., an eatery in downtown Macon. Someone who works there said a former employee, a 32-year-old man, had come in asking to open a beer tab. When the man was told he couldn’t do that he “became irate,” the deputy’s report said. The angry ex-employee then told a restaurant worker that “he did not know who he was messing with because he was from up North.” The man, who had to be told several times to leave, was gone when the deputy got there. … On April 8, a woman who lives in an apartment in the 5500 block of Riverside Drive in Macon called the cops and told them someone had damaged all four rims on her black 2006 Ford Taurus by spray-painting them purple. … On April 19, a guy who lives on Knightsbridge Road, which runs between Shurling Drive and New Clinton Road in east Macon, told the police that someone stole the .45-caliber pistol he keeps stashed under his sofa. According to a sheriff’s report, the man said his friends, “Chopper” and “Tadpole,” had been there while he was gone. The man, the report went on, said he “does not believe Chopper would have taken his gun but he was not sure about Tadpole.”

This story was originally published May 6, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "$7,000 cash goes missing in ‘fairly decent’ Macon neighborhood."