Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The incident happened near S. Hairston Rd. on May 6 in unincorporated Stone Mountain, according to the DeKalb county police report.
Am Atlanta man who answered a Craig's List ad for an iPhone ended up getting robbed of his own. The victim told DeKalb county police he responded to the ad for the iPhone 5, which was being sold for $500. On May 6 he agreed to meet the person who placed the ad (the suspect), at the Kroger store, 1232 S. Hairston Rd. But the suspect told the man to meet him instead in the 4700 block of Fieldgreen Dr. The suspect was standing outside on the street when the victim came to the location, the report states. The man let him in the passenger side of his car. The suspect pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the victim, the report states. The man told police that the suspect said, "Give me your money and your phone." The victim handed over his …
Friday, May 3, 2013
Detectives believe the man may be responsible for several business robberies in DeKalb.
The DeKalb County Police Department, based in Tucker, is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a man suspected of robbing two businesses this week. According a a press release, the suspect entered the Family Dollar store located at 3590 Panola Road on May 1 at approximately 11:30 a.m. The man was armed with a weapon and demanded money from the cash register. He then fled the location with an undisclosed amount of cash. The same person is believed to have entered a second business, Dollar General, 2566 Wesley Chapel Road, about 15 minutes later and robbed the location of cash. No injuries were reported during either incident. Detectives believe the man may be responsible for additional business robberies in DeKalb and neighboring …
Monday, January 28, 2013
The incident took place at the O'Reilly Auto Parts parking lot on N. Hairston, according to the DeKalb county incident report.
A man told DeKalb County police that he was robbed at knifepoint of his wallet and other belongings in the parking lot of the O'Reilly Auto Parts store on N. Hairston Rd. in unincorporated Stone Mountain (the incident report lists the address as 956 N. Hairston, but the address is 921 N. Hairston). The incident occurred Jan. 23 at 7:10 p.m. The victim was standing in the parking lot when the suspect approached him. According to the report, the suspect pulled out a knife and pointed it at the victim's back, the report states. The suspect demanded the victim's wallet, then started to pat him down. The suspect took the victim's wallet, which had in it a Mexican ID card, Georgia ID, and a Wells Fargo debit card, the report states. The suspect …
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Saturday morning attack occurred in the shopping center's parking lot, and police are looking for two suspects.
Gwinnett County Police are looking for two suspects who shot a man and robbed another outside the Walmart at 1825 Rockbridge Road this morning (Saturday, Jan. 12) around 2:50 a.m. The suspects, both black males, were armed with a semi-automatic handgun, possibly a .40 calibre Glock, according to a police statement. They approached two separate shoppers in the parking lot of the store, shooting one, a 35-year-old male, in the leg when "he did not understand their demands and continued to walk towards the store," the report said. The other victim, a 20-year-old-male, handed over his keys, wallet and cell phone. The suspects took his car and left the scene. That vehicle is described as a blue 2010 Honda Fit with Georgia tag PFE8356. …
Monday, December 17, 2012
The victim was not injured in the Dec. 9 incident in unincorporated Stone Mountain.
An armed suspect fired a shot as he robbed a woman getting out of her vehicle in unincorporated Stone Mountain on Dec. 9 according to a DeKalb County incident report. The incident occurred in the 2500 block of Treehills Parkway, at the Reserve at Stonecreek Apartments where the victim lives. She told police as she was getting out of her car an unknown black male put his foot in the door and pointed a gun at her face, around 2:25 a.m. The suspect told her to to give him everything she had, then fired the gun into her car one time, close to her face, she said. She was not injured. The victim gave the suspect her pocketbook, which contained her driver's license, credit cards and social security card. The suspect then ran off toward the …
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
The suspect demanded a cashier remove money from three registers, according to a DeKalb County incident report.
An armed suspect robbed the Kroger grocery store at 1232 S. Hairston Rd. one early morning last week, according to a DeKalb County incident report. In the Dec. 6 incident, which occurred just before 3 a.m., a cashier told police that the suspect walked into the store and placed a silver handgun near her side, then said, "Open the register." The cashier said she was forced at gunpoint to open three registers and was not sure how much the suspect stole, the report states. She was not injured. Two workers were in the back of the store when the robbery occurred, according to the report; neither saw the crime, but one did see the suspect leave. The security officer was on his lunch break during the incident, the report states. The suspect was …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
"We're glad it's all over with and we're moving on," said the owner of Weeyums, whose son was shot in the arm during the November 2010 incident.
A U.S. District judge has sentenced a father from Conyers and his son, who is from the Stone Mountain area, this week to federal prison on several charges including armed commercial robbery, attempted bank robbery, and using and carrying firearms during crimes of violence, U.S. Attorney's office for the Northen District of Georgia said in a press release. The two were charged in the November 2010 robbery of Weeyums Philly Style Cheese Steaks in Stone Mountain Village, in which William "Joe" Dawson, son of the restaurant's owner, was shot in the arm. His father told Patch his son, now 25, is doing fine. The father and son crime pair also attempted to rob a Wells Fargo Bank on Clairmont Road. Judge William S. Duffey, Jr. sentenced the son, …
Monday, November 5, 2012
The incident occurred at a Motel 6 on Oct. 28.
A Massachusetts man told DeKalb County police his friend helped an armed man rob him at a Tucker motel on Sunday, Oct. 28. The 25-year-old victim said he was in his room at the Motel 6 at 2810 Lawrenceville Highway when his friend – a Lithonia man – and an unknown suspect knocked on the front door shortly after 5 p.m., the police report said. The victim let the two in, and his friend asked to borrow $10. The suspect pulled out a black pistol and demanded money from both of them. The suspect took money from the victim's front pants pocket and struck him in the head with the butt of the pistol. The robber then forced both men into the bathroom while he rummaged through their bags in the living room. The two men remained in the bathroom until…
Friday, August 10, 2012
A weekly look at recent local crime.
A Covington Highway Subway employee who lives in unincorporated Stone Mountain witnessed an armed robbery at the restaurant last week, according to the DeKalb County police report. Another worker, who was behind the counter, told police that a man came into the Subway at 6116 Covington Highway in Lithonia around 9:18 p.m. July 31. After she asked to take the man's order, she said he "just stood there for a few seconds" before pulling out a hand gun, the report says. The other employee was mopping the floor. When he produced the gun, she tried to run to the door leading behind the counter. She told police the man cocked the gun and told her to go back to where she'd been mopping. The suspect then approached the counter, laid the gun on the …
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
No injuries were reported in the unincorporated Stone Mountain incident.
Each week, Stone Mountain-Redan Patch takes a closer look at recent local crime reports. A DeKalb police officer met with the victim of a reported armed robbery the night of May 11 in unincorporated Stone Mountain. The victim, a juvenile, told police he and a friend were walking in the Citi Trends parking lot at 1179 S. Hairston Rd. when two suspects approached them, pointing guns and saying, "Give me all you got" at 10:20 p.m. One suspect had a black and silver handgun, the other a black handgun, the victim told police. The victim turned over his Verizon cell phone, valued at $60, according to the report. His friend did not have anything in his pockets and the suspects did not take anything from him, he told police. The victim said he …
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