A Fulton County judge set a $9,000 bond for the 19-year-old woman charged in connection with a false abduction report, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Alexandra Dahm, a student at Appalachian State University in North Carolina and a graduate of Centennial High School in Roswell, has never been in trouble before, her lawyer said, according to the newspaper. She’s also been charged with reporting a false crime, along with previous charges of cocaine possession and tampering with evidence.

Atlanta police Thursday charged Dahm with cocaine possession after she falsely claimed that she was abducted and held by seven men armed with shotguns. Her text-messaged claims set off a SWAT team lockdown that lasted several hours on Darlington Road, near its intersection with Piedmont Road.

The bizarre story led to the Atlanta Police Department SWAT team sending armored hostage negotiators to a home on Darlington setting up a command post, and closing the road for several hours, Atlanta police spokesperson Kim Jones said. The incident began at about 6:30 a.m. Thursday and concluded a little past 9 a.m.

After police questioned the home’s residents and the woman was found to be in no danger, she was taken to Zone 2 headquarters after admitting to use of cocaine during the night, Jones said. She was examined by a medic at the scene, Jones said.

At Zone 2, Dahm requested to use the bathroom, where an officer observed her taking a blue glassine baggie from her underwear and attempting to put it in the toilet, Jones said. The bag contained powder cocaine, Jones said.

Police charged Dahm with possession of cocaine and tampering with evidence, and she was transported to the Fulton County Jail.

Officers at 6:29 a.m. Thursday responded to the report of a possible kidnapping at the home at 664 Darlington Road after a caller, identified by Jones as James White, said that several Asian men possibly had abducted Dahm from the Connect Lounge at 253 Auburn Ave. White said he’d been with her at the lounge when she turned up missing and didn’t respond to text messages, Jones said.

Later, she sent him several “alarming” text messages from the home on Darlington, some of which read “they will not allow me out of the car” and “several Asian males armed with multiple shotguns,” the police spokesperson said.

White told police that he drove to the location and spoke with Dahm in the driveway, where she said she was afraid to leave and would not get in his car. Fearing for her safety, White left the location and called 911. A command post was set up at Darlington Road and Darlington Circle.

Dahm walked out of the house several hours later and said that she was not in any danger. She admitted that she had been using powder cocaine, police said.

Jones said that Kevin Chang, who rents the house, allowed the home to be searched, and no weapons were discovered. The house’s six residents described a night of drinking and drug use. Police detained none of them, although some were briefly handcuffed at the scene.

When questioned by Zone 2 detectives, Dahm said that she “may have over-exaggerated her text messages,” Jones said. She also admitted that she had deleted the text messages.

Pace Academy standout Morgan Batey was named the Most Valuable Player of Westminster’s Holiday Classic, leading the Lady Knights to the tournament championship, coach Regina Tate said.

Batey, who recently signed to play college basketball with Vanderbilt, scored 32 points in Pace’s 57-50 overtime win over Kennesaw Mountain in the tournament final. She hit a career high six three-pointers and also pulled down 10 rebounds in the win, in which Pace took a 9-2 edge in overtime. Evelyn Hobbs recorded seven steals and battled for seven rebounds.

Haley Zwecker, who hit 20 points in the final, was named to the all-tournament team.

From Patch Reports

Lovett’s Noah Dickerson, a 6-foot-6 freshman, was named to the Westminster Holiday Classic all-tournament team after leading the Lions to a second-place finish.

Lovett lost 66-49 to Alpharetta in the tournament finals after an opening round win over Pace Academy and an overtime victory over Wesleyan.

At 6-6 on the year, Lovett resumes play Tuesday at home with a 6-AA region game against Buckhead archrival Westminster.

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On New Year’s Day, many folks like to eat special foods reputed to bring money or good luck.

In the South, a dish called Hoppin’ John has caught on. According to Wikopedia, Hoppin’ John comes from a traditional West African dish. It’s a mixture of black eyed peas, rice, chopped onion and bacon first popular in black communities of the South Carolina Low Country and Georgia.

Others like to chow down on collard greens or cornbread on New Year’s. The greens are the color of money, after all.

Half-Baked Casseroles on Roswell Road has a twist on the Hoppin’ John dish, adding the collard greens to the peas and rice, along with some spices. Could that bring even more luck? The business is open from 10 a.m. to noon on New Year’s Eve,  so you can pick up some Hpppin’ John to take home.

Do you have a custom of eating a certain dish on New Year’s? Do you know of other dishes said to bring good luck? Do you follow any other New Year’s customs? Let us know in comments.

Agents sometimes give me the telephonic equivalent of an are-you-crazy look after I ask them about such superficial aspects of homes as wallpaper or paint. I recognize how mutable the stuff we slap on residential walls can be, so I try to keep color-themed columns to a minimum. Nevertheless, when the universe hands me a couple of exceedingly handsome gray houses, what else am I supposed to do?

With its steep, hipped roof and its flagstone parking pad, 3392 Kilby Place would look right at home in rural France (in fact, it stands in the West Paces Ferry/Northside Drive neighborhood). This four-bedroom, three-point-five bathroom structure comes with a carriage house that itself has a bathroom and a kitchen. No. 3392 wears a pale, almost pearlescent, gray on its exterior walls. Its elegant, flared roof has shingles in a darker gray.

Out back No. 3392 has an arbor, sculpted hedges and trees, and well-trained ivy as elements of its meticulous landscaping. Inside, the home’s grace notes include airy dining areas that make the most of the aforementioned roof configuration, a hideaway wine cellar, and a folly gateway of iron at the entrance to the living room.

The exterior of 3576 Tuxedo Park Dive  sort of fits in the builder’s shed style: The home has diagonal siding and no overhang, though its roof is simpler than the multidirectional ones that tend to characterize the style. No. 3576 has walls painted a medium gray, plus a monolithic chimney in gray stone that looks as if it sprouted from the soil.

No. 3576 got stalled in the midst of a renovation and is considered poised between a potential new owner’s completing that work or razing the structure and restarting with a clean slate. The existing structure has six bedrooms and seven-point-five bathrooms. The lot is an acre and a half in — of course — Tuxedo Park.

(Please note that all property details, including pricing, are confirmed as of press time but are also subject to change.)

A 19-year-old woman, charged with cocaine possession Thursday after making a false claim she was being held hostage in a quiet Buckhead neighborhood, will make a court appearance Friday morning, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said.

Alexandra Dahm, whose false text messages caused the Atlanta police SWAT team to descend on a Buckhead house before daybreak Thursday, remained in the Fulton County Jail Friday morning, according to jail records, the newspaper said. A $1,000 bond was set after her arrest Thursday.

Dahm, a student at Appalachian State University in North Carolina and a graduate of Centennial High School in Roswell, is scheduled for a first appearance hearing before a Fulton County magistrate judge at 11 a.m. at the jail, the AJC said.

Atlanta police Thursday charged Dahm with cocaine possession after she falsely claimed that she was abducted and held by seven men armed with shotguns. Her text-messaged claims set off a SWAT team lockdown that lasted several hours on Darlington Road, near its intersection with Piedmont Road.

The bizarre story led to the Atlanta Police Department SWAT team sending armored hostage negotiators to a home on Darlington setting up a command post, and closing the road for several hours, Atlanta police spokesperson Kim Jones said. The incident began at about 6:30 a.m. Thursday and concluded a little past 9 a.m.

After police questioned the home’s residents and the woman was found to be in no danger, she was taken to Zone 2 headquarters after admitting to use of cocaine during the night, Jones said. She was examined by a medic at the scene, Jones said.

At Zone 2, Dahm requested to use the bathroom, where an officer observed her taking a blue glassine baggie from her underwear and attempting to put it in the toilet, Jones said. The bag contained powder cocaine, Jones said.

Police charged Dahm with possession of cocaine and tampering with evidence, and she was transported to the Fulton County Jail.

Officers at 6:29 a.m. Thursday responded to the report of a possible kidnapping at the home at 664 Darlington Road after a caller, identified by Jones as James White, said that several Asian men possibly had abducted Dahm from the Connect Lounge at 253 Auburn Ave. White said he’d been with her at the lounge when she turned up missing and didn’t respond to text messages, Jones said.

Later, she sent him several “alarming” text messages from the home on Darlington, some of which read “they will not allow me out of the car” and “several Asian males armed with multiple shotguns,” the police spokesperson said.

White told police that he drove to the location and spoke with Dahm in the driveway, where she said she was afraid to leave and would not get in his car. Fearing for her safety, White left the location and called 911. A command post was set up at Darlington Road and Darlington Circle.

Dahm walked out of the house several hours later and said that she was not in any danger. She admitted that she had been using powder cocaine, police said.

Jones said that Kevin Chang, who rents the house, allowed the home to be searched, and no weapons were discovered. The house’s six residents described a night of drinking and drug use. Police detained none of them, although some were briefly handcuffed at the scene.

When questioned by Zone 2 detectives, Dahm said that she “may have over-exaggerated her text messages,” Jones said. She also admitted that she had deleted the text messages.

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Buckhead author Molly Read Woo is donating end-of-year sales from her murder mystery “The Red and Black Breed” to the VOX teen journalism program.

Read, who raised $365 this week at a speciai “Christmas recovery” sing-a-long program at Manuel’s Tavern, wants to raise $500 by the end of the year. She’s giving the full $15 purchase price of each book sold to VOX, she said.

The book is a murder mystery set on the University of Georgia campus, Woo said. The main characters are former journalists for the UGA newspaper “The Red and Black” who work to solve the mystery.

VOX students put out a publication and receive instruction from professional journalists such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff and Atlanta magazine writer Rich Eldredge.

Woo said that Klibanoff and Eldredge spoke at the Manuel’s event, and “really brought home the impact of this program, telling the stories of a few teens whose lives were dramatically changed for the better by having a vehicle of expression to help them get through tough times.”

She said her own son, Max, a North Atlanta High junior, attended a VOX mdia cafe program for two weeks last summer.

The new year arrives Sunday, with Buckhead residents for the first time allowed to buy alcohol. If you subscribe to the “hair of the dog” cure for New Year’s Eve hangovers, you’ll have plenty of places to find relief.

“We’re rolling it out on new year’s, baby,” said a spokesperson at the Piedmont Road Kroger long known as “the disco Kroger.” The store wll be open regular hours, with wine and beer sales beginning at 12:30 p.m. Publix supermarkets will also be open Sunday until 9 p.m., selling beer and wine.

Buckhead’s liquor stores said they will also be open on Sunday beginning at 12:30 p.m., includng All-American Package Store, Tower Beer, Wine and Spirits and Green’s Beverages.

Walgreens will be open, but the location at 3658 Roswell Road that sells wine is not yet prepared for Sunday sales, a spokesperson said.

Phipps Plaza and Lenox Square will be open from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, the last day for the Pink Pig ride at Lenox. The ride will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, opening at 10 a.m. Sunday.

But you’ll still have a few days of ice skating at the Astor Holiday Rink at the St. Regis Hotel. The rink is open until Tuesday, Jan. 3, the last day of the Atlanta Public Schools’ holidays. For reservations, call 404-563-7797.

With the official holiday falling on a Monday, the city of Atlanta will be making regular garbage collections on Tuesday instead. Recycling and solid waste collections will be made a day later throughout the week.

On Sunday, the city will be giving a break on parking tickets, according to the AJC. So if you want to leave your car at its parking place early Sunday and take a cab home, you won’t have to worry about getting a ticket.

For those making a resolution to get into better shape in 2012, you can “shake into the new year” at a free zumba party at 2:15 Sunday at Urban Active Atlanta:Buckhead, 3535 Peachtree Road. The 75-minute party will get you moving to the Latin-inspired dance workout.

After that, you might be ready to repair to a Buckhead tavern to watch the Falcons play the Tampa Bay Bucs. The kickoff’s at 4:15 p.m. at the Georgia Dome.