Mayor foils metal thieves | 11alive.com

CLARKSTON, Ga. — Criminals better beware if they’re up to no good in the City of Clarkston. The mayor may be watching.

Two metal thieves are behind bars Thursday night because of Clarkston Mayor Emanuel Ransom.

Ransom was delivering letters to the U. .Post Office on Montreal Road when he noticed something suspicious at the nearby construction site for the city’s new public works building.

“I saw this big huge guy putting the stuff in the truck and like I said, they should be taking it out, not putting it in,” Mayor Ransom said.

He saw a man loading steel beams from the construction site into the back of a U-Haul truck. A woman was driving the truck. The 75-year-old mayor decided he had to act.

“And I said oh, they’re getting ready to book and that’s when I pulled out in front of her and she shot around me,” the Mayor said.

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