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Vine Street Crimes
Aggravated Assault
A subject was pushed into a fire pit after drinking and being "wnaif <
with other subjects. She was puked out of the flames and transported
to the hospital by EMS on Jan. 12.
DUI
A male student was arrested and charged with DUI, failure to main
oin lane and open container of aicohoi at the intersection of First
Street and Vine Street on Feb. 1 1.
Assault
A simple battery was reported at the 100 block of Vine Street and
Greesom Street on March 11.
Entering Auto
An entering auto was reported at 100 Vine Street on March 25.
Assault
A simple battery was reported at 500 Vine Street on March 29
Assault
A battery was reported at 500 Vine Street on April 4.
Assault
A simple battery was reported at 500 Vine Street on April 11.
Stalking
A stalking was reported at 500 Vine Street on April 10.
Assault
A simple battery was reported at 500 Vine Street on April 18.
Burglary
A burglary, residence forced entry, was repotted at the 100 block of
Vine Circle on May 6.
Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon
An aggravated assault with a deadly weapon was reported at the 500
block of Vme Street on May 14.
Aggravated Assault
An aggravated assault on the 500 block of Vme Street with a man who
had a stab wound to the side of his chest and abrasions to his face
was reported on May 20.
Battery
A misdemeanor battery was reported at the 500 block of Vine Street
on June 1.
Theft by Taking
A theft by taking, less than SSOO. was reported at the 200 block of
Vme Street on June 2.
Entering Auto
An entering auto was reported at the 500 block of Vme Street on
June 5.
Two Reports of Battery
Two simple batteries were reported at the 500 block of Vine Street on
Junes.
Entering Auto
An entering auto was reported at the 200 block of Vme Street on
June 12.
Entering Auto
An entering auto was reported at the 500 block of Vine Street on
June 28.
Battery
A simple battery was reported at the 200 block of Vine Street on June
27.
Theft by Receiving
A witness saw two males remove air conditioner units valued at S6OO
from Oakwood Forest Apartments, 700 Fourth St. They placed them
in a vehicle and left. The vehicle was later located on Vme Street,
and after questioning, a male was charged with theft by receiving on
July 8.
Theft by Taking
A theft by taking, less than SSOO. was reported at Vine Street and
Gressom Street on July 19.
Theft by Taking
A theft by taking, less than SSOO. was reported at Vine Street and
Gressom Street on July 19.
Entering Auto
An entering auto was reported at the 100 block of Vine Circle on July
19.
Entering Auto
An entering auto was reported at the 100 block of Vine Street on July
20.
Robbery
A residential robbery, strong am. was repotted at the 500 block of
Vine Street on July 31.
Theft by Taking
A theft by taking, less than SSOO was reported at the 500 block of
Vine Street on Aug. 4.
Burglary
A Vine Street residence was entered through a kicked-m front door A
Toshiba notebook computer, a 42" Samsung TV, two X-flo* Game
Systems and three controllers were stolen on Aug. 7.
Entering Auto
At West Vine Street a vehicle was entered through a broken window
and rummaged through, but nothing was reported stolen.
Robbery
A robbery of a residence, strong am, was reported on Aug. 8 at Vine
Street and Herman Street
Burglary
A burgiaty of a residence, forced entry, was reported at the 100 block
of Vine Sheet on Aug 6.
Battery
A misdemeanor battery was reported at the 500 block of Vine Street
on Aug. 10.
Battery
A simple battery was reported at the 200 block of Vine Street on Aug.
15.
Entering Auto
An entering auto was reported at the 100 block of Vine Street on
Aug. 15
Entering Auto
An entering auto was reported at the 100 block of Vne Street on
Aug. 18.
Terroristic Acts or Threats
Terrortelc acts or threats were reported at the 300 block of Vine
Street on Aug. 25.
Entering Auto
A UGA employee repotted a lockbox and various mectcattons taken
($2,086) from the Chicopee Complex on Aug. 30.
Breaking and Entering
A IxiitiH and entering was reported on the 500 block of Vine Street
on Sept 2.
Entering Auto
An entering auto was reported on the 100 block of Vine Street on
Sept 4.
Simple Battery
A simple btetory was reported on the 200 block of Vsw Street on
Sept 4.
Aggravated Battery
An aggravated bettery was reported on the 500 block of Vine Street
on Sept 10.
Battery
A bettery was reported on toe 500 block of Vine Street on Sept 14.
Entering Auto
An entering auto wae reported on the 600 Vine Street on Sept 20.
Theft
A theft wet reported at the intersection of N Peter Street and Vine
Street on Sept 21
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▲ University alumnus Chris Wilson said his car has
been broken into near his Vine Street home. Wilson
uses a security system to keep his residence safe.
VINE Students don’t
find area dangerous
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before we had our first break-in, I was driving down there and
on Arch Street there was a cop and there was a guy pointing
at his broken window,” Wilson said.
The two University students who live next door in the
duplex Victoria Mathias and Whitney Wilson, both first
year law students from Lewisburg, Penn., and Ponte Vedra,
Fla., respectively had a similar break-in.
Whitney Wilson’s car was broken into on the first day of
school.
“It was locked and they just busted my window,” she said.
“They didn't take anything. Nothing was in there to take.”
Mathias said she now takes steps to deter crime.
“We don’t leave anything of value in our cars,” Mathias
said. “In the back [of the house] we have these big open win
dows back there. If we're not here, and even a lot of times if
we are, we keep the blinds closed. We lock our doors and stuff
like that.”
Chris Wilson said he and his roommates also keep their
doors locked and use their house’s security system, and have
not had any problems thus far.
He said after the car break-ins, his landlord put up a fence
around the parking area behind the duplex.
Residents on alert
Angela Johnson has lived on Vine Street for about four
months and has not been the victim of any crimes —but that
does not deter her from taking precautions to keep her chil
dren and grandchildren safe.
“They pretty much don’t come out unless I’m out here,”
she said. “I lock every door in the house front door to the
screen door. And if you knock on my door at night, you better
say who you is or you ain’t coming in.”
Johnson lives in property owned by the Athens Housing
Authority and said the company does a good job of keeping
crime at bay.
“If the police come to the house, you have to make sure
and know what you’re doing when they come to your house
because if you don't, you have to go to the rent office and
report," she said. “They’ll get in contact with you before you
get in contact with them. The police work with Athens
Housing Authority.”
In addition to what the Athens Housing Authority refers to
as “scattered sites” houses such as Johnson’s the group
also owns a neighborhood on Vine Circle, a street acUacent to
Vine Street.
Two of the 44 crimes in the area occurred on Vine Circle.
“Vine Circle is an elderly public housing neighborhood,”
said Richard Parker, the executive director of the Athens
Housing Authority, in an interview Wednesday. “If crime has
occurred in that neighborhood I can almost guarantee you
that with the exception of a couple of elderly people yelling
and screaming at each other —and there being a simple
assault because they called each other names or threatened
each other none of those individuals were perpetrators.”
Parker said the Housing Authority “self-generates” some
crime statistics, such as criminal trespass and barring notic
es, in order to protect residents.
“If you take a normal apartment complex, a privately-run
apartment complex in town, the chances are they’re not
going out there aggressively and saying, ‘Do you belong here?
I don’t think you belong on this property, therefore I’m going
to bar you from this property and if you come back on this
property then I’m going to arrest you for criminal trespass,”’
Parker said. “Yes, those people are guilty of a crime, but the
reason they’re guilty of a crime is that we’re over-aggressively
enforcing that particular crime.”
Maj. Carter Greene of the Athens-Clarke County Police
Department said the residents of Vine Circle do a good job of
looking out for one another to prevent crimes during through
out the day.
“We are self-generating incidents to prevent crime, not to
make it look like there’s a higher crime rate, which is what it
looks like when you just look at raw numbers,” Greene said.
Students don’t feel threatened
Despite the break-ins, none of the students who live on
’ Vine Street said they feel unsafe in the area.
“My main concern ever about crime is violent crime,” Chris
Wilson said. “I don’t feel threatened by anyone on this street
or that anyone is ever going to hurt me.”
Mathias felt that though Vine Street was not “one of the
nicer places to live in Athens,” she did not feel unsafe in that
area.
“To be fair, we’ve lived in Athens for like, less them a month,
' so we don’t really know what’s bad and what’s not,” she said.
“I would say we joke around a little bit that we live in the
ghetto, but most of our friends live downtown in 909 [Broad
Street Apartments] and places like that, so It’s a little more
seedy around here.”
They said the proximity of the Athens-Clarke County
Police Department's East Precinct did not make a difference
i in their feelings of safety.
“It’s a low-income area, which unfortunately kind of goes
hand-in-hand [with] crime. Like I said, it’s very unfortunate
► and I hate that that’s the case, but it is,” Chris Wilson said.
“The only thing that surprises me is the fact that basically
nobody here, including the students, have anything to take
worth value, but people still break into things.”
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