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North Forsyth student
arrested for alleged
terroristic threats
By Alexander Popp
apopp@forsythnews.com
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office
has arrested another high school stu
dent for allegedly making terroristic
threats of harm at North Forsyth High
School.
According to Cpl. Doug Rainwater
of the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office,
a 15-year-old male student was arrest
ed Friday morning at North Forsyth
High School after threats he allegedly
made on social media Thursday night
were reported to authorities.
Rainwater said that this is the third
Forsyth County student who has been
arrested for making terroristic threats
toward a school in the past week. Two
other students at West Forsyth High
Schoel were arrested Thursday, after
making similar threats of violence on
INCIDENT REPORTS
Vandal steals, cuts wiring in
new townhome ;
At 10:10 a.m. on Feb. 12, a deputy
responded to the site of an under-con
struction townhome in response to a
burglary and criminal damage call.
Upon arriving, the deputy met with
the site’s superintendent who showed
the officer recently-vandalized wiring.
He stated that some of the wiring
(about $1,750 worth) had also been
stolen.
The report stated that, upon inspec
tion, “it looks as if the suspects inten
tionally cut the wires short at the junc
tion boxes so they could not be used
and would require running new wires
... [The victim] stated he has not had
any issues with any recent contrac
tors.” 2
The stolen wire included, the esti
mated total damage was about $3,250.
Traffic stop yields bag of
drugs, massive pistol
After pursuing a black Dodge
Charger for failure to obey a stop sign
around 3 p.m. Feb. 12, at Pilgrim
Point Road and Bonneville Drive, a
deputy lost sight of the vehicle, only
to later find it in a nearby backyard.
After meeting with the renter of the
home and discussing the mysterious
vehicle parked in her yard, deputies
called for a wrecker to impound the
car (after discovering the car’s owner
had no valid insurance). The vehicle
was socked but the responding deputy
spotted a handgun tucked between the
driver’s seat and the center console.
Another deputy arrived with a kit to
open the vehicle.
Upon further search of the vehicle,
deputies found a bag with “a large
amount of marijuana inside” as well
as loaded Ruger .38 with two different
types of rounds — “.38 special hollow
points and .38 snake shot rounds.”
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social media.
“At this point we are investigating so
many of these threats, if you put some
thing on social media you are going to
be in real serious trouble,” Rainwater
said.
‘He said that in the latest incident the
student had no weapon or means of
causing harm at the time of his arrest
Friday moming. :
The 15-year-old male was arrested,
charged with making terroristic threats
and has been turned over to the
Department of Juvenile Justice to be
held at a youth detention center.
Rainwater said that this case is a
good example of parents and students
seeing threats online, and turning to
authorities for help. He said that the
sheriff’s office continues to get calls
about online threats every day.
They also discovered a .50 AE cali
ber Desert Eagle pistol — a gun that
retails for about $2,000 — under the
seat with the serial number filed off.
Local woman defrauded of
more than SII,OOO
Around 4 p.m. Feb. 12, a local
woman visited the Forsyth County
Sheriff’s Office headquarters to report
that her bank account was “being
hacked.”
The victim stated that her work
account had been compromised and
another account added and listed as
the default: ; ——
The victim said she’d given no-one
permission to access her account, and
that she realized on Feb. 11 that
$11,269.28 had been routed to the
fraudulent account.
Man placed under
arrest after guzzling beer
in bathroom
A deputy was dispatched to the
Walmart at 2395 Peachtree Parkway at
about 4 p.m. Feb. 15 regarding a mys
terious, emptied six pack of domestic
beer in the men’s room.
According to an incident report, a
security guard at the store reviewed
security camera footage and noticed a
former employee of the store “walking
in the beer aisle, taking a six pack of
Yuengling beer and walking into the
men’s room.” :
—An hour later; the same suspect
walked back to the beer aisle and took
another six pack, returning again to
the men’s room.
The suspect (who was apparently
still there) admitted to taking the beer
and pouring it into a plastic cup and
drinking it while in the restroom.
He was placed under arrest for
shoplifting and transported to the
Forsyth County Jail.
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Forsyth County News
February 23, 2018 *
Commissioners discuss
prohibiting vinyl siding
for new buildings
By Kelly Whitmire _
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
Forsyth County Commissioners could
soon prohibit a type of home siding in
order to try and limit fire damage.
At a recent work session, Forsyth
County commissioners voted 3-2, with
District 1 Commissioner Pete Amos and
District 4 Commissioner Cindy Jones
Mills opposed, to go ahead with a
change to the county’s unified develop
ment code to not allow vinyl siding for
new construction.
Fire safety was given as a reason for
prohibiting the material.
Forsyth County Fire Chief Danny
Bowman said the county has had two
major fires in 2004 and 2006 with vinyl
siding being a factor.
“Five houses were burned to the
ground and a dozen severely damaged.
The epicenter of that fire was 1,500
degrees,” Bowman said. “Another
occurred on March 31, 2006 ... four
houses burned to the ground [and] four
were severely damaged. What's the
common denominator? Vinyl ‘siding,
built fairly close together — fairly close
being eight to 10 feet... ”
Bowman also brought up an arson fire
in Paulding County that happened on
Sunday, Feb. 17 and damaged 20 homes
City approves impact fee study,
six-month moratorium
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
The city of Cumming has put a new
moratorium in place as officials consid
er levying impact fees for development.
On Tuesday, the Cumming City
Council voted 4-0, with Councilman
Christopher Light recused due to a con
flict of interest, to approve a bid to
Duncan Associates to perform an impact
fee study and approve a moratorium on
the acceptance of building permits.
“The moratorium is a temporary
action designed so that during the period
that the impact fees are being studied,
the city isn’t suddenly hit with a lot of
land disturbance [or] building permits,”
~said City Attorney Kevin Tallant. “The
~idea is you don’t want to get a whole
rush in-all of asudden.”
Impact fees are a charge for develop
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‘ln this kind of fire here,
you don'’t put water on the
fire. You protect the houses
that have not yet caught on
fire.”
Danny Bowman
Fire chief,
Forsyth County Fire Department
with viny] siding. :
“In this kind of fire here, you don’t
put water on the fire,” Bowman said.
“You protect the houses that have not
yet caught on fire.”
Commission Chairman Todd Levent
said the change would only impact new
construction.
“I don’t think a lot of people under
stand the liability [and] risk they are
putting themselves at,” he said. :
Mills said she opposed the motion as
she had concerns for those wanting to
renovate homes.
“I just don’t create a situation where
people won’t upgrade their houses
because they can’t afford it,” she said.
Levent said those homes would not be
impacted by the motion.
ment that helps cover the cost of
increased demand on roads, infrastruc
ture, services and amenities.
The moratorium gives the developer
the ability to continue if they pay the
impact fees businesses would have been
assessed. The moratorium will last six
months, until a vote on impact fees or
until the council takes action to end or
extend the moratorium.
There were no speakers at the
required public hearing.
Tallant said the study was being
looked at as part of an update to the
city’s comprehensive plan.
“The study would determine whether
or not the city should be using impact
fees to recover the cost of development,”
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— Forsyth County officials previously
used Duncan Associates to update coun
ty impact fees. 3
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