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In Depth
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014

Curfew crackdown
Continues

“We don’t want
to say that every
child out late is
doing wrong, but
we do want to
prevent them from
doing wrong.”

—

Investigator Kim
Lucas, Crime Analyst,
Conyers Police
Department

More citations issued to mostly Covington parents
for leaving teens unattended after Conyers curfew
Martin rand III
More citations had to be given to parents and guardians
from Newton County for their child violating Conyers’
underage curfew law over the weekend.
From 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Saturday night, Conyers
Police issued 16 citations for kids loitering in the Conyers
Crossroads parking lot. Eleven of the citations were kids
who reside in Covington.
The different groups of juveniles, ages 13 to 16, stated
they either just finished watching a movie at Crossroads
Cinemas, 1536 Dogwood Drive, Conyers, or were walking
to the nearby Walmart Supercenter, 1436 Dogwood Drive,
Conyers, when police questioned them.
On the night of Sept. 13, Conyers Police had to issue 14
citations for kids fighting in the parking lot area of Conyers
Crossroad after the city-wide curfew. Of those 14 citations,
13 were to parents or guardians from the Covington area.

Unlike the week prior, the kids on Saturday weren’t creating a disturbance, but were spotted by police patrolling the
area. According to Conyers Police Investigator and Public
Information Officer Kim Lucas, police told the kids prior to
11 p.m. that they had to get home before curfew.
With no theater in Covington, the Carmike Cinema in
Conyers is the closest for residents from Covington to catch
a movie. Covington teenagers regularly make the trip across
the county line on the weekends to catch a movie with their
friends.
But, Lucas wants adults from Covington to know that
Conyers has a curfew for teens so they should make plans to
pick up their kids as soon as the movie is over if it ends after
11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays or 9:30 p.m. other days.
“Our goal is to not issue any citations,” she said. “Not
only do we want to prevent these teens from committing
crime, but we want to prevent them from becoming victims.”

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