Letter from Alpharetta Police re: North Park Incident

Received tonight:

Sir,

Detectives Haynes and Shoffeitt have arrested the suspect involved in the case at North Park . He is charged with public indecency and child molestation / sexual gratification in front of a child (no physical contact). We have contacted Forsyth County as the suspect meets the description of a suspicious person call at Midway Park the day before our incident. The suspect has admitted to being at Midway Park on that date at the same time. Forsyth County does not have any criminal charges at this time. I applaud both our detectives for their fast and professional effort to bring this case to a close and get this suspect locked away from our community.

Captain Sanford L. West
Criminal Investigations (678-297-6320)
Alpharetta Police Department
2565 Old Milton Pkwy
Alpharetta Ga. 30004

More on Suspected Sexual Predator at North Park

To Milton Residents:

As of today the suspected "sexual predator" from North Park is in custody and has Confessed.

He has been charged with public indecency and child molestation / sexual gratification in front of a child (no physical contact).

This was not the first time this man has done this; however, I think it is the first time he has been arrested.

If anyone knows the family that witnessed this mans indecent behavior, please pass the information on. They may or may not know.

Thanks
Kim

UPDATE: North Park Alert

Received this afternoon:

If you receive the email going around regarding the North Park incident, here is an update. Great news. They caught the guy and he is arrested! If you received this email from others, please feel free to update them on the situation. (If this is the second time you received this email, I apologize. I’m having email issues.)

Marie Sharp

North Park Alert

The following notice was received this morning in a long email thread which is beginning to circulate in our area:

Subject: Child Molester Alert!
To:  All Ambush Parents:

I wanted to make everyone aware of a situation that took place at soccer practice on Saturday, March 22nd at the North Park in Alpharetta.

While our U12 team was practicing on the turf field, the younger siblings were playing around the stands and bathroom area much like they normally do. Our younger daughter was playing “hide and go seek” and was hiding behind a trash can when she noticed an older man staring at her from his car in the parking lot. This man was in his mid 50’s and was not in a parking space but was pulled up sideways watching them play. The man was sitting with the car door open and his legs outside the door. Our daughter said the man was only wearing a towel around his neck and took off his sunglasses while he was staring at her. She said he had his legs spread and was “scratching his private parts.”

Fortunately, she did NOT get near this man but went to the parents and informed them of what was going on. When the parents realized what she was trying to tell them, they quickly reacted. One of the parents approached the car and saw exactly what was going on. She immediately called the police.

The police took about 15 minutes to arrive. We were all vey disappointed by the reaction of the officer. Even though we had a license plate number, eye witness account and very disturbed children, the officer said there really wasn’t anything he could do. He never even bothered to get out of his car to talk to us. He informed us that the license plate would probably come up expired, the man probably wasn’t a registered sex offender because most are not, etc,. etc, etc. The officer said that we should have not approached the man, rather just called the police so he could be caught in the act or we could have detained him. Not quite the answers that I expected we would receive.

The car was an older black Mitsubishi Eclipse with a loud exhaust. License plate # ATD-9438.  The pervert was a white male, medium build in his mid 50’s with facial hair.

We all let our children play when we are at practice or watching games. Please take this notice as first hand experience that sexual predators are present everywhere! Fortunately, nothing worse happened. This could have easily been an abduction and we would have never known our daughter was gone.

We have taken this experience to solidify with our children why they should stay away from strangers and why we don’t let them roam around by themselves.

A special thanks to Suzanne Bailey and the other parents for quickly reacting.

-John Salvador

Here is a picture of an adorable young dog found by one of my neighbors. She was found near the part of the Champions View golf course that backs up to our subdivision, Oak Ridge on the Green. She looks like a Rottweiler puppy, maybe some shepherd mixed in. She looks well cared for and is very sweet. PLEASE pass this picture and email along to your friends and neighbors so we can find her owners. You can call me at 770-521-2835 or email me at hollingsworthcyn@bellsouthnet Thank you for your help.
Cindy Hollingsworth

Foster Care Support needs some Volunteers

Would love for you to come and volunteer. We served almost 4,000 kids in 2007
and are now working on our Capital Campaign for a permanent building.

Please let me know if you know of anyone that could help us with that.
It's a need that most people don't know exist with these children
but they are getting more of the message about them these days.
At least we have raise awareness of their plight.

Rachel Ewald
Foster Care Support Foundation INC
www.fostercares.org

More schools on Freemanville

Blogger Note: Based on the facts, and always a bit of the nasty rumor virus mixed in, decisions were made in Milton during the last few years that certainly were politically motivated, job security motivated, bad press and public relations for the City, not to mention the volume of ethics complaints against one another, and even the executive training/therapy session turned into a bigger ridiculous issue - there are too many reasons not to consider taking a moment to protect -something.

How can we call ourselves different than any other small city? We are lucky to have the passion among us to stand up and make our priorities known to the "government" we all fight against - but voted for - by the separation from Fulton County.
Just use your voice and make a difference not matter what your opinion on sewage in our water.

Wake up. This is big news.

Let's get As Milton Turns taken off the air...

All - Rolling Links Residents, Wood Road Residents, Freemanville Road Residents as well:

This is a picture of N. Fulton HS under construction right now. I thought everyone in WC and on Rolling Links Drive and Freemanville should see this so they will know what to expect if the Freemanville HS is built. Notice the homes that border the school property, not much of a buffer. Notice there are no trees, clear cut. The other two lane road could represent Freemanville, then Wood Rd. on the other side -- septic waste in all on our waterways.

Sometimes a pictures says it all. We can win this fight environmentally and have it move from this site to a better location for the City, and most importantly for survival of the Watershed, and Chicken Creek. We cannot do this without donations to proceed.

For more information go to our website or contact me directly.

Regards,

Lisa Cauley, Chair, Protect Milton, Inc.

EMAIL: protectmilton@aol.com WEBSITE: www.protectmilton.com

Kentucky Needs Us!

Hello Mayor and Council:

On March 27th, King’s Ridge School is spear-heading a service project to fill a U-haul with food, clothing and other badly needed items to take to Rattle Snake Ridge, in southeastern Kentucky. Rattlesnake Ridge is home to Integrated Community Ministries http://www.ky-icm.org/home.html (ICM), a non-profit organization serving McCreary County, whose claim to fame is that is that it is one of the three poorest counties in Kentucky. Rattlesnake Ridge is a community within McCreary, home to those whose fathers and grandfathers worked the coal mines for script, lived on company own land and bought food from the company owned stores. The coal industry disappeared in the 1970’s…. leaving the people of McCreary County without jobs, without land, without money and without hope.

The problem with small, remote, communities like McCreary, which is the only county in Kentucky without an incorporated city, is that there are few if any social services. And because almost no one has much to give, there’s little in the way of local charity. The problems for the people on the Ridge are compounded by their isolationism. The western part of this county (where Rattlesnake Ridge is located) is uneffectionately known as No Man's Land. They are considered the poorest of the poor, physically separated from the rest of the county because they actually live on a mountain top, miles from, well everything. They are further removed due to their incredible poverty and inability to successfully interact within the schools and within the community. They are alone, and bitter in their uniqueness. Consequently, many kids drop out of school and return to the Ridge, running away from the daily ridicule and prejudice that confronts them in the “mainstream” county culture. What they return to is a life of immense need, drug addiction and generational poverty with no end in sight – and no hope.

I thought the timing may be perfect, to submit the following to you for consideration: Cities often adopt “sister” cities from other parts of the country or other parts of the world. Here we are, Milton, a shiny, brand spanking new city. Wouldn’t it be cool for one of the richest cities in the world to adopt one of the poorest…… It could change a lot of lives both in McCreary and in Milton.

There has been a local, grass roots effort going on for the past 7 years to help support ICM through a community outreach program right here in Milton and Alpharetta. The founders and drivers of the “Appalachian Christmas Project” are Eva Buckingham and Lisa Beharelle from White Columns. Here are Eva, Lisa and Lisa’s daughter Kelsey (center) pausing for a photo last November as Christmas gifts are loaded on to the FOUR (4) U-hauls headed for Kentucky. This is just one of several trips that take place every year up to Rattlesnake Ridge. It’s an amazing thing to see as dozens of neighbors from the community load the trucks on a Thursday night – and off they go…. The number of kids in McCreary County who now get to have a real Christmas has grown from 40 (6) years ago to now 344 this past December.

I urge you to please watch this video. Check it out first hand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heGZqTj9zZY This is all going on right here in our community!! Like I mentioned, King’s Ridge is loading up a truck in a couple of weeks and it would be awesome to have your support and send along some good news from our great city, Milton, GA. I greatly appreciate your considering this idea.

Sincerely,

Bill and Tracy Schellhorn
Schellhorn@bellsouth.net

Robbery at The Hermitage (subdivision)

Received 03/02/08 from T. Chambers:

I know many of you don’t live over in this area, but I wanted to let you know what happened here last night/this morning.

We, here is the Hermitage, had 3 (possibly more) homes broken into around 5:30am this morning. The one victim/neighbor I have spoken with said that the burglars “preyed a garage window open, lifted the blind and pulled the emergency cord on the garage door and put it part way up”. They entered the house through the unlocked door to the house and the alarm went off, but before they ran they were able to grab a purse off of the kitchen island and take a bicycle from the garage. After daylight, the bicycle and the wallet that was inside the purse (with only about $6 missing) were found outside the pool fence. The purse, checkbook and cell phone are the only things missing.

What makes this particularly disturbing to me is that this home had 2 cars in the garage and 3 cars in the driveway. There is no way they thought there was no one home – they just didn’t care. Very bold and scary.