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When Athens-Clarke police received a 911 call shortly after 1 a.m. on April 24 about a man breaking into a car, an officer responded only to find the thief had disappeared into the night.
The suspect, in his hurry to escape when surprised by the vehicle s owner, had run out of his shoes, which were left behind.
Officer Craig Turner summoned to assist the nightshift officers arrived with his K-9 partner, Bruno, an almost 3-year-old German shepherd trained in tracking, drug detection and suspect apprehension.
An officer on scene had “secured one shoe and we took the other shoe with us on the track. Essentially, it’s a scent article,” said Turner, a member of the police department’s K-9 unit, which has two other dogs. The unit officially began operating in July 2020.
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Early Friday morning, the floor collapsed at a house party on Magnolia Bluff Drive. 25 people sustained minor injuries.
Many attendees fell from the first floor of the home into the crawl space below. Minor injuries were reported, according to Athens-Clarke County Fire & Emergency Services.Â
The number of attendees inside at the time of the collapse is disputed, but Lt. Shaun Barnett of the ACC Police Department estimated roughly 200 were present at the time. News outlets have reported there were 500 people at the party. A civic alert from the ACC Fire & Emergency Services said there were close to 500 people at the scene.
Hull man struck by car in Athens a week ago remains hospitalized
A Hull man remained hospitalized in serious condition Monday with injuries he suffered when he was hit by a car while walking along a road in north Athens on April 5.
Dennie Shane Smith, 34, was transported to Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center after he was struck about 2:30 a.m. on Danielsville Road near the intersection of Hull Road, according to an Athens-Clarke police report.
Police said a 23-year-old Athens woman was driving south in a Honda Accord when she struck Smith, who appeared to be walking north in the southbound lanes of travel, the report said.