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Wife Says Another Woman Is Obsessed With Her Husband

The other woman reportedly stole tax information and is using it to blackmail the wife.

A Norcross woman told police another woman is so obsessed with her husband that the woman stole his tax information and is blackmailing her for money. The victim also said she’s been receiving threatening phone calls and texts from the woman, who allegedly pretended to be the wife to get hubby's tax info from the Internal Revenue Service.

In other strange police news:

Wrong answer: A Lawrenceville woman, who admitted to being high on meth when she allegedly attacked a hotel employee with a shovel, also had 42 Oxycodone and Zolpidem pills when police searched her purse. When an officer asked if she had any more drugs on her, she replied, "Why? Do you want some?"

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His eyes gave him away: A Lawrenceville man, accused of trying to run over a Lilburn Police Department officer, said he was looking down when the incident happened and he didn’t mean to do it. But one of his friends contradicted that assertion: "No man, you were driving, so you had to be looking up, not down," the friend said, according to the police report. The officer, who was acting as a courtesy officer at an apartment complex, said he had made eye contact with the driver before jumping out of the way of the car.

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