Juliangel
Georgia's Juiciest Peach, ...and my nectar dribble
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I am guessing there were no hard criminals like murders or drug dealers to be tracked down this day.
Cop shows he's one tough cookie
Girl Scouts ticketed as unlicensed peddlers, but DeKalb officials crumble after outcry.
Brenden Sager - Staff
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
DeKalb County police on Sunday busted a ring of juveniles peddling . . . Girl Scout cookies?
A small group of Girl Scouts ran afoul of the law while selling their signature cookies from the parking lot of a closed-on-Sunday Chick-fil-A restaurant on Wesley Chapel Road. Troop leader Angelia Latners had written permission from the owner to be there, as the Girl Scouts recommend.
Everything seemed in order --- like a row of Thin Mints in their plastic sleeve.
But the Scouts were unaware of DeKalb ordinance 15-241 --- which requires a solicitor's permit for anyone conducting business "which by its nature requires going from door to door or house to house in the residential areas of the unincorporated areas of the county."
An officer wrote the group of mostly 8-year-old girls a ticket for soliciting without a permit. Troop leader Latners said she argued until a sergeant showed up. He, too, insisted the law had been broken.
Latners was stunned. "I mean, this is crazy. . . . After he finished with us, he went down to the Kroger and ticketed another (group of Scouts)," she said.
Angela Jackson, southeast DeKalb service unit director for the Girl Scouts, was at the Kroger location. She said Officer E.D. Lacosta, who ticketed her, told her the fine would be between $100 and $200.
On Monday morning, Maj. Ron Slade, the precinct commander, learned what had happened --- through media inquiries and calls from irate Girl Scout leaders.
He quickly apologized and voided the tickets.
Soliciting by youths along Wesley Chapel Road has gotten out of hand, Slade said, but, well, not that much.
"We're not the big bad guys. We love the Girl Scouts," Slade said. "I just bought some of their cookies."
Cop shows he's one tough cookie
Girl Scouts ticketed as unlicensed peddlers, but DeKalb officials crumble after outcry.
Brenden Sager - Staff
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
DeKalb County police on Sunday busted a ring of juveniles peddling . . . Girl Scout cookies?
A small group of Girl Scouts ran afoul of the law while selling their signature cookies from the parking lot of a closed-on-Sunday Chick-fil-A restaurant on Wesley Chapel Road. Troop leader Angelia Latners had written permission from the owner to be there, as the Girl Scouts recommend.
Everything seemed in order --- like a row of Thin Mints in their plastic sleeve.
But the Scouts were unaware of DeKalb ordinance 15-241 --- which requires a solicitor's permit for anyone conducting business "which by its nature requires going from door to door or house to house in the residential areas of the unincorporated areas of the county."
An officer wrote the group of mostly 8-year-old girls a ticket for soliciting without a permit. Troop leader Latners said she argued until a sergeant showed up. He, too, insisted the law had been broken.
Latners was stunned. "I mean, this is crazy. . . . After he finished with us, he went down to the Kroger and ticketed another (group of Scouts)," she said.
Angela Jackson, southeast DeKalb service unit director for the Girl Scouts, was at the Kroger location. She said Officer E.D. Lacosta, who ticketed her, told her the fine would be between $100 and $200.
On Monday morning, Maj. Ron Slade, the precinct commander, learned what had happened --- through media inquiries and calls from irate Girl Scout leaders.
He quickly apologized and voided the tickets.
Soliciting by youths along Wesley Chapel Road has gotten out of hand, Slade said, but, well, not that much.
"We're not the big bad guys. We love the Girl Scouts," Slade said. "I just bought some of their cookies."
