Around the Region: Mother Pawns Children's Gifts, Indecent Exposure at Waffle House, Murder Suspects Arrested

- Barrow Patch

A Winder woman with a prescription drug abuse problem pawned Christmas gifts intended for her children and then lied to police about it according to a Winder Police Department incident report.

The 24-year-old mother first told police she didn’t know what happened to a computer that was missing from her home and then she said her step-brother had taken it. The woman’s step-brother told police that he had driven the woman to a pawn shop and the pawn shop owner confirmed that the mother pawned a new computer, a vacuum cleaner and children’s toys.

The woman’s estranged husband told police he planned to retrieve the children’s gifts from the pawn shop.

- Norcross Patch

A homeless man was arrested for public intoxication, open container and public indecency after he allegedly showed himself and yelled drunken obscenities to two sisters at a Norcross Waffle House on Dec. 6.

The sisters told police that upon exiting the Waffle House a homeless man began yelling obscenities at them and grabbed his groin area. The older sister told the man to leave them alone but he continued to follow them to their car. The older sister told police that the man exposed himself to them through the car window. The older sister proceeded to scream at the man, exit the car and call authorities.

Upon arrival the suspect told police that he did not expose himself to the victims and that their records should be checked for prostitution and methamphetamine. The homeless man had two open containers of alcohol with him at the time of his arrest.

- Duluth Patch

Investigators with the Duluth Police Department arrested two suspects in the early morning hours for their involvement in the murder of Kwang Ko which occurred on Dec. 8, 2011.

The two suspects Seung Won Lee, 24, and Dong Ho Shin, 30, both of Duluth, were arrested on Dec. 15 and each have been charged with one count of felony murder and one count of aggravated assault, Maj. Don Woodruff reported. Search warrants were served following these arrests, and evidence related to the investigation was recovered.

Ko, 32, also of Duluth, was found stabbed and bleeding in the parking lot of Aldi located at 2618 Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth at approximately 7 a.m. last Thursday. Ko died after being transported by EMS to Gwinnett Medical Center-Duluth