I’ve spent way too much time today trying to sort of the facts on Big Poppa’s (Lee Najjar’s) arrest last Tuesday. So much is going on. The background part is that Big Poppa ain’t such a Big Poppa these days. He has allegedly had several properties foreclosed on. It appears that his arrest in Fulton county on Tuesday was related to an outstanding issue in Gwinnett county based on the inmate report. That’s his mugshot on the left.
From there, things get a bit murky. This is what TMZ is reporting as the latest update, ” Najjar had a bench warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear in court to face allegations he failed to maintain a storm water system at one of his properties. Najjar has already been hit with a $75,000 fine for violating the ordinance and was supposed to appear in court on July 5 but apparently, he blew off his court date.” It’s interesting that he was arrested on Tuesday, which was election day. I’m wondering if he was picked up at his polling place. Probably not but it’s an interesting theory. I’m curious as how the Fulton police came to arrest him for the outstanding warrant in Gwinnett. But not curious enough to waste any more time on it.
Update: He’s what the AJC had to say about the arrest.
By Alexis Stevens
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta real estate investor Lee Najjar spent a night in the Fulton County jail after an arrest for allegedly skipping a court date concerning a storm drain, according to police.
A bench warrant was issued for Najjar, 55, after he failed to appear in Gwinnett County Recorder’s Court in July, according to the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office. Najjar, known as Kim Zolciak’s former “Big Poppa” on “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” was ordered in May to pay $75,000 for violating the county’s soil erosion and sediment control ordinance in January, according to a citation obtained by the AJC .
Najjar, who lives in Buckhead, is accused of “failure to maintain storm water system” on property at the intersection of Jimmy Carter Boulevard and U.S. 29, the citation states. He was arrested Tuesday and transported to the Gwinnett County jail before being released Wednesday afternoon, jail records show.
Najjar has struggled financially in recent years, including in early 2011 when he lost Union Station Mall in south Fulton County to foreclosure.
Great job Tamra. Thanks!
Tamara
Thanks. I’m still a bit irritated. I hate spending time on the phone with the cops and looking high and low for details only to come up empty. I do wonder how he felt missing the entire election! I wonder if they keep the inmates updated…
I wonder weird stuff.
In the Straight from the A article it says Kim & Lee are messing around when Kroy is on the road, do you think she’s that stupid? I have a hard time picturing her being that stupid since he’s broke now… Have you heard this around Atlanta or the web?
Nope. And I don’t believe it.
Michelle is a hater…
Want me send an open records request?
For big poppa? Nah, I don’t think it’s that serious. But thanks.
Do you think that Baby Kash look a little bit like big poppa. the pic of kim and kroy at the radio station
Um, no. SMH
he kinda does, but he’s just a baby so it’s hard to tell who he’ll really look like. They change so much as they age
No. I think Big Poppa has been fixed.
I wonder what Kroy’s teammates think of him? How embarassing for him, he plays linebacker for an undefeated NFL team and will be getting evicted on national tv. How does he show up to work? IJS
Um…they are football players. Have you heard them speak??
Touché.
Its called KARMA……..he cheated on his wife with trash that disrespected him and his family on national TV….GOD dont like ugly…his whole life is about to change Karma just caught up with him. Next up is Kim…..she is just self centered and dont care I mean most people try and hide it but Kim is just UGLY.
I expected him to be older. He’s not old at all.
oooooo HAI BENDY! *waves furiously*
Hi Tamara! I still read your blog every day. I just don’t comment much. Thanks for all your hard work.
I didn’t realize Big Poppa was still in Atlanta. I thought he was staying in California. I had heard that the arrest was a big mistake.
Does anyone besides me think Kim’s baby KJ looks a little like the rich guy in Florida where she/Kandi ended theur bus tour and the girls stayed at his house. She had just started to date Kroy, but was mighty slutty-I mean frisky- with that guy. Notice him in the reruns. He has probably been fixed as well, because you know Kim would have made sure she was pregnant by ANY rich guy. That’s prob why she got pregnant so quick when she started dating Kroy-she seemed to be running out of rich guy options.
No, I think that KJ is Kroy’s son and that he looks like his father, but people will always questions Kim’s loyalty and intergrity beause of how she flaunted her relationship with a married man. Kims claim to fame will always be how she bragged about being engaged to a married man on TV. Now did anyone notice that one of Kim’s former “friends” will be on the next Miami HW epsidode yelling at Mama Elsa? I will be watching that train wreck.LOL.
Aren’t you people the ones that freak out when I mean a school age child on this blog in the mildest of ways? Yet you are all up in her making up utter bullshit about the parentage of a new born baby you have seen a picture of once in a gossip magazine? From all that you are just positive you know that Kroy isn’t the father? What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Kroy is the best thing that ever happened to Kim and she knows it. Big Poppa is broke now, so Kim’s timing was perfect. No way she would have anything to do with him now.
I just hope to god that Kroy is smart enough to hire a competent money manager. NFL careers don’t last forever and we all know how Kim likes to keep up appearances.
Big Poppa was one of the investors behind a new development in Buckhead that was touted to be like Rodeo Drive in the heart of Atlanta. They started construction and tore up the place, then the economy went in the crapper and those cranes and half-finished buildings have been sitting there for years. I always hear that some new people are coming in with money to finish the job, but plans have been scaled way back from where they were and it’s all still a big mess.
Atlanta has always been a town full of posers and people trying to keep up—it has one of the highest rates of personal bankruptcy in America. People think buying expensive things on credit makes you look rich, but it just makes you end up looking stupid. And broke.
Good blog ……..