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Buckhead
Police Blotter
From police reports dated through
April 6.
The following information was provided to
the Buckhead Reporter by the Zone 2 pre
cinct of the Atlanta Police Department from
its records and is presumed to be accurate.
ASSAULT
■ 3700 block of Roswell Road, NE - An ag
gravated assault at a nightclub was report
ed on March 31. A man was struck in the
head with a beer bottle brandished by an
other man, causing a laceration to the left
side of the victim’s head.
■ 3300 block of Peachtree Road, NE -
An aggravated assault was reported on
April 1. The suspect was watched shoplift
ing True Religion jeans on camera, passing
all points of sale. When store security at
tempted to detain the arrestee for steal
ing blue jeans, the arrestee reached into
his bag and pulled out what appeared to be
a silver 9mm handgun with a black handle,
pointed it in the guard’s face, then took off
running. The suspect was found beneath a
deck and arrested. The object the arrestee
used had fallen out of his pocket and was
not located.
RAPE
■ 3700 block of Roswell Road, NE - A
woman reported a possible assault on March
31. She said she consumed four drinks in an
hour at a nightclub, felt sick, then went on
the patio for some fresh air. She blacked
out for four hours and remembered talking
to a man wearing a blue oxford shirt. When
she came to, she was sitting at a table at
a fast-food restaurant without her purse,
wallet, cellphone, shoes or underwear.
■ 2400 block of Piedmont Road, NE - A
rape was reported on April 6. A woman said
a co-worker sexually assaulted her after at
tending an outing with other co-workers at
a restaurant. She believes the man possi
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bly put something in her drink that caused
her to go in and out of consciousness. She
could only remember parts of the night and
was later driven to the hospital by a friend.
ROBBERY
■ 1900 block of Howell Mill Road, NW
- A robbery was reported on March 25.
A man was opening up his gym when two
men approached him wearing black masks.
They tried to rob him. The men fired three
rounds, striking the victim in the hand and
wrist. The men drove off in a dark-colored
vehicle.
■ 2000 block of Howell Mill Road, NW -
A robbery was reported on March 27. A man
and woman agreed to meet suspects they
found on craigslist.com in a grocery store
parking lot to purchase two new iPhone4s
for $460 each. The suspects walked out of
the store; one suspect approached the pas
senger side of the victim’s vehicle and gave
the woman the cellphones. When the wom
an opened her wallet, the suspect reached
inside the vehicle and tried to snatch the
cash from her. She struggled and retained
the cash. As the man in the car attempted
to roll up the window, one suspect struck
him in the head with his fist.
■ 600 block of Garson Drive, NE - A rob
bery was reported on March 27. While at his
residence, a man was approached by two
other men who demanded $800. They then
proceeded to put the victim in his trunk
and brought him to the bank to withdraw
funds in excess of $2,800.
■ 100 block of Karland Drive, NW - A rob
bery at a residence was reported on March
29. Three men robbed the victim at gun
point. The suspects took a laptop from his
residence. The suspects forced the man
into his own vehicle and made him drive to
an ATM to withdraw $300 cash.
■ 1800 block of Johnson Road, NE - A pe
destrian robbery was reported on April 6. A
man said he was walking down the street
when two men approached him and asked
for a cigarette, and then for money. When
he told them he didn’t have any money, one
of them hit him twice in the head, caus
ing an injury to his lip. They took $60, an
iPhone, two debit cards and a Mexican Con
sular identification card.
BURGLARY
■ 1800 block of Meadowdale Avenue, NE
- A residential burglary was reported
on March 26. A camera, lens, saxo
phone, guitar and various jewel
ry items were taken. No signs
of forced entry.
■ 3600 block of North-
side Drive, NW - A residen
tial burglary was reported on
March 27. A woman returned
home and noticed a silver SUV
backed up in her driveway with a
woman in the driver’s seat. The vic
tim asked the woman what she was
doing, and the woman said she was
“just leaving.” She asked the vic
tim to back up. The victim noticed
a man walk from behind her
house, and he told her he was
looking at her house because
it was for sale. When she at
tempted to dial 911, the man
brandished a silver handgun.
The victim dropped the phone
and ran to a neighbor’s house.
The man jumped into the vic
tim’s vehicle and drove off, fol
lowed by the woman in the silver SUV.
The vehicle was recovered a short time
later; no suspects were on the scene. The
victim’s back door had been kicked in and
several drawers were opened. A jewelry
chest inside a pillow case was left in the
hallway, but nothing was taken.
■ 1300 block of Northside Drive, NW - A
commercial burglary was reported on March
30. A lock was damaged on storage facility,
and a washer and dryer were stolen from
the unit.
■ 2100 block of Cheshire Bridge Road,
NE - A residential burglary was reported on
March 31. A man left one of his apartment
windows open while he went out of town
for two weeks, and when he returned he
noticed that he was missing $4,300 and his
12-gauge shotgun. There were no signs of
forced entry.
■ 600 block of Phipps Boulevard, NE - A
residential burglary was reported on April
6. While a woman was away from her resi
dence, items were taken. She said the only
people with a key are cleaning people and
building maintenance. She said things were
removed from her night stand, including
stocks/bonds, a U.S. passport and a birth
certificate.
LARCENY
■ 3500 block of Peachtree
Road, NE - A larceny from a
specialty store was reported
on March 24. A man select
ed a Rolex watch with his left
hand and concealed it in his
left pocket. When confronted by
a store employee, he removed
the watch and placed it on a display
pad. The watch is valued at $86,000.
■ 3400 block of North-
side Parkway, NW - A larceny
was reported on March 26. The
suspect entered the store and
took a large bottle of Hen-
nessy, worth $70, and Patron,
worth $50, and approached
the counter. The suspect then
ran from the location, entered
a black Lexus GS 300 and drove
off. The tag was traced to a man
who resides in Buford.
■ 3500 block of Northside Parkway, NW
- A larceny from a restaurant was report
ed on March 27. The suspect took a taxi
cab to the location and had no way to pay
the fare. The suspect also ran up a bar tab
with no way to pay. The suspect’s cred
it card was declined, and the suspect was
charged with theft of services and trans
ported to jail.
■ 2000 block of Bolton Road, NW - A lar
ceny from a gas station was reported on
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