Around the Region: Bottle-Bombing Duo, Carjacking Kidnapper and Costly False Alarms

– East Cobb Patch

juniors of East Cobb posted bond and left the jail in York, S.C., Monday night after being arrested Sunday and charged with three counts of use and possession of a destructive device.

and another bomb outside a nearby house just outside the city in unincorporated York County, according to the incident reports from the Clover Police Department and the York Sheriff's Office.

They each are charged with two counts of use and possession of a destructive device in the city of Clover and one count of the same charge in the incident outside the city at the empty house. Each count is a felony that carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison, the Clover police said.

Wallace also faces a misdemeanor charge of possession of a Schedule I controlled substance, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Wallace had two packages of synthetic marijuana in a pants pocket, police reported. Officers also found a glass pipe used to smoke marijuana during a search of the boys' vehicle.

– Cartersville Patch

A Cartersville man was arrested late last night after what police say was a carjacking, armed robbery and kidnapping that began in Cartersville and continued to Acworth.

According to the , about 11:45 p.m., the victim exited the Kangaroo Express to return to his vehicle when Pacino Porter, 36, of Cartersville, got into the car and ordered the victim to drive. 

The man drove to his home in Acworth, got out of the car and Porter allegedly took the vehicle. Police later pulled over Porter in Emerson and he was arrested.

He is now housed at the with several pending charges, including armed robbery, hijacking a motor vehicle, kidnapping an adult, theft and simple assault.

– Lilburn Patch

As the city's tax income dwindles, Lilburn is looking to pare expenses by charging a fee when security alarms go off more than once for no good reason.

False security alarms cost the city $116,000 over a three-year period, according to Lilburn Police Chief Bruce Hedley, and fewer than 1 percent of all alarms are true alarms, Hedley told the city council during its work session Monday night.

Alarms make up about 10 percent of all call volume, Hedley said. In his three-year audit, 45 of 5,000 alarms were "true alarms," the police chief added.

The city is looking at neighboring ordinances in drafting one for Lilburn. In Gwinnett County, for example, the first alarm response is free, but the second false alarm will cost the owner $25, and the fee increases with each incident.