Last week, Gwinnett County police said a teenager was arrested after he was accused of stealing nearly $1 million from the Kroger store where he worked.
According to police, 19-year-old Tre Brown created more than 40 returns for non-existent items in December and January, including lottery tickets that were never sold, spokesman Cpl. Collin Flynn said. Those returns, which ranged in price from $75 to more than $87,000, were then placed on several credit cards, investigators said.
With his stolen money, Brown bought two cars, clothes, guns and shoes, according to police.
In a separate case in Cobb, a gas station employee stole lottery tickets worth $2,561 while he worked, according to police.
Dereco Montfort, who worked at the RaceTrac on Floyd Road in Mableton, was caught on a surveillance camera grabbing tickets, scratching them off and scanning them to see if they were winners, his arrest warrant states.
“Said accused admitted to police that he would steal about three lottery tickets per shift almost every time he would go to work, which was five times a week,” the warrant states.
An officer found six lottery tickets in Montfort’s pocket during the arrest, according to police. He was charged with theft by taking.
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On January 25, 2021, at approximately 4:16 am, three individuals entered Bells Pharmacy in Tate using a crowbar to pry...
Posted by Pickens County Georgia Sheriff's Office on Monday, January 25, 2021
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Just got a chance to fully read through the letter Vanessa Bryant posted from one of Gigi Bryant’s friends and 😔😔. We really lost some great ones 🙏🏾🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/NH7ImxvXK2
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Universe, please give Vanessa Bryant and her girls so much strength and unconditional love today. pic.twitter.com/QOJfQAozpq
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I am sobbing. What a beautiful letter from GiGi's friend to Vanessa Bryant. #RIPKobeAndGianna https://t.co/WhcXNtvutQ
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APD Arrests 4 Suspects in the December 28, 2020 Homicide at 1041 Martin Street SEnnHomicide #156 Update: It is with...
Posted by City of Atlanta Police Department on Monday, January 25, 2021
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This is what #blackexcellence looks like. @DennisNia does it again! 🔥
📹 @Pac12Network pic.twitter.com/2vxgyTvUCG
— UCLA Gymnastics (@uclagymnastics) January 24, 2021
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Snappin🔥
— Missy Elliott (@MissyElliott) January 24, 2021
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WOW! That performance gave me chills! Well done!
👏👏👏— Laura Click (@lauraclick) January 25, 2021
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Nia be eating and leaving no crumbs pic.twitter.com/aTfjZkoBqP
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Wonderful routine. It will be great when we do not have to associate excellence with a color.
— Bobby Graves (@soonador) January 24, 2021
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This tweet implies division. If we had a hashtag for whiteexcellence, it would be seen as supremacist.
As we keep labeling people by race, their accomplishment is secondary to the color of their skin.
Stop Racism, Stop labels.— Biden and Harris Won (@SWiegardt) January 24, 2021
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My maternal grandfather, Burnalle “Bun” Hayes, had played in the Negro Leagues for the Jacksonville Red Caps, Baltimore Black Sox, the Brooklyn Dodgers Negro League, so the love for baseball and baseball players is imprinted into my DNA. Watching Mr. Aaron play as a child fueled pure joy for me.","_id":"YNXOOEXGHJFPFDLY5NYQODVQXY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611624163261,"type":"text","content":"Even beyond Mr. Aaron as a baseball player, he and his wife, Billye have remained cheerleaders for my endeavors. Most recently, when my wife, Wendy, and I decided to make the documentary, “Maynard,” about my father, it was Billye and Hank that made the very first donation to get us started. 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That’s how I felt when I met Hank Aaron. Interestingly, at the time, I was still trying to find solid footing in this town as a journalist. I was on the path, albeit slow to my heart’s desire. I had a weekend job working the front desk at the Landmark Condominiums in downtown Atlanta.","_id":"UVHLC4YCUFHWPI3PIF5V3V63XM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611624163308,"type":"text","content":"Mr. Aaron’s mother lived in the building, and he always came by. We’d talk about sports — of course, baseball — and I bragged about my hometown St. Louis Cardinals. Our conversations were no longer than 10 minutes at a time, but he seemed impressed with my knowledge of the Negro Leagues, quite an honor coming from the Hammer. I remarked about the slow pace my career was taking. He told me to “hang in there” and keep striving. It’s kind of like baseball, he said. “But I want you to go beyond home plate. 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In addition to clubhouse duties, I was the left field ballboy in ’69 and batboy in ’70. I had several interactions with the Hammer. The most memorable for me was on the night the Braves won the division title in ’69. Despite our boss, Bill Acree, telling us kids after the game to stay in the visiting clubhouse and not go over to the Braves clubhouse.","_id":"Q2LJHX2NVFFMZHNYKC4DKWGA3M","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611624163319,"type":"text","content":"I didn’t listen and went over anyway to witness the celebration. The Hammer was being interviewed at his locker by numerous reporters. He spotted me in my Braves uniform and asked if we still had beer in our clubhouse.","_id":"HJOXC54G7FCTPMQSXO5RITHI5A","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611624163320,"type":"text","content":"Apparently, the Braves had gone through theirs celebrating. 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I turned 13 in 1974 when he broke the home run record. I vividly remember listening to the Braves games on my little portable radio to see how many home runs Hank would hit each night. I laid in bed late at night many times, listening to their games when they were playing on the West Coast.","_id":"SJTMCY4L75DY3HRI6KEDCZKDVI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611624163334,"type":"text","content":"Fortunately, we were able to watch those April 1974 games on television when he tied and broke the record. 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That year, Mr. Aaron came to Nashville on one of his autograph tours, and I was lucky enough to meet him and have him sign my poster. He was without a doubt the most gracious person that I have ever met.","_id":"7PZG5PM3CNFN3AXGKOZMNEY6TA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611624163337,"type":"text","content":"He let us take as many pictures as we wanted and even shook my hand! 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My dad had secured us pretty good seats in the lower upper deck between the first base dugout and home plate to see Aaron break Babe Ruth’s home run record. Prior to that, but certainly afterward, began my fandom of the Hammer. I even had the 45 record “Move Over Babe, Here Comes Henry” that I played over and over and can still hum the song to this day.","_id":"OZALKW2CLJFJXDWD2M5634XCWI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611624163341,"type":"text","content":"I was able to meet Aaron for the first time in the early ’90s, when I attended a card show and got him to sign (along with Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle) a picture that I still have. 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The monument was built in 1911 by former members of the Gate City Guard—a Confederate-era city militia—that was on a peace mission to unite the North and South in the decades after the Civil War. Today's Old Guard of the Gate City Guard still rededicates the monument each year.","_id":"QBGK5YNMJRCL3FZR5MEEVT5SF4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813630,"type":"text","content":"In 2017, the Atlanta committee report concluded that it represented "Lost Cause mythology" and recommended its removal. 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Lanier was a famous musician, poet and author from Macon who was inducted as a charter member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. His artistic legacy is so large that Lanier County and Lake Lanier are named after him.","_id":"LNV4EWR6BFEA7JUY4BKXVWEK2U","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813640,"type":"text","content":"In his youth, Lanier was a Confederate soldier who was captured by Union forces. He contracted tuberculosis while a prisoner of war and this condition would plague him until his death. Lanier's only published novel was a good-vs-evil tale with a Yankee villian.","_id":"FGMGU7TX6NF53JVY7BJJ6KG7RY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813641,"type":"text","content":"In 2012, the bust was relocated to Oglethorpe University and a replica was installed at Piedmont Park. The Atlanta committee concluded that the bust was not a Confederate monument and recommended leaving it in place.","_id":"EIPPK7SM5FBFBEWAEW54EUK6MM","additional_properties":"comments":[],"_id":1595252813642,"id":"U57780323116KcE","type":"raw_html","content":"","_id":"T6DG6KE52JFVTFVRSZDUF4TJ6A","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813643,"type":"text","content":"ATLANTA STREET NAMES","_id":"DDMEKHVG4NBGTAUHVD4Z2UTST4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813644,"type":"text","content":"The Atlanta committee report identified 34 city streets possibly memorializing the Confederacy and recommended that some names get changed immediately: Confederate Avenue, East Confederate Avenue, and any street named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, John B. Gordon, Robert E. 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A lawsuit filed by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars Georgia Society Inc. calls the plan “a racially-motivated action designed for political purposes to placate the mob mentalities” and seeks to block the moves. Although that lawsuit is pending, local officials are prevented from moving the memorials due to a temporary injunction.","_id":"W6OCZXRBHVHZXNQDF5KLKZOQ2M","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611064893806,"type":"text","content":"BRUNSWICK: In November 2020, the Brunswick City Commission voted to remove a statue of a Confederate soldier from Hanover Square, but only once legal issues involving similar statue removals in other cities were resolved. The commission did not decide at the time what would become of the 118-year-old statue or where it might be moved.","_id":"TKRGDXN7QVFH3EHONJ55DAQMD4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1595252813751,"type":"text","content":"ATHENS: A Confederate memorial on Broad Street was the target of protests in May and June 2020. The mayor said that city officials would like to remove the memorial as soon as possible and are investigating ways to do it. 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When the noted interviewer became the interviewee, he exhibited similar poise and honesty. One subject he did not shy away from was his thoughts on death and the afterlife. He admitted in many interviews that he was somewhat fixated on death, spending countless hours reading obituaries.","_id":"GLDKMAFCBRG5HJZYW6TB6X32LA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611592659906,"type":"text","content":"In a handful of interviews, including one with Los Angeles television station KTLA, he spoke about no longer fearing death. In the 2020 interview with Frank Buckley, he discussed how he would want his body preserved. 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