GPNW CRIME ALERT: Cabbagetown Home Invasion and Abduction
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Grant Park Neighborhood Watch
Jul 5, 2012, 2:34:52 PM7/5/12
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Please be aware of a bold home invasion that occurred in Cabbagetown on Tuesday night (July 3) with three armed men and five people on a porch.
Please call 911 if you see ANYTHING suspicious.
WSB: http://bit.ly/OvdTky
Man kidnapped, robbed in porch ambush
By Richard Elliot
Atlanta police said three gunmen attacked five people sitting on a porch at a Cabbagetown home and kidnapped one of the victims.
The incident happened around 11 p.m. Tuesday at a house on Estoria Street.
Police said five residents of the home were sitting on their front porch when three gunmen walked up and forced them inside. There, police said, the bandits robbed them. Then they took one of the residents at gunpoint, forced him into their car and drove to a nearby ATM where they forced him to withdraw an undisclosed amount of money.
Police said the victim was eventually released and found a ride with a passer-by who brought him home. Channel 2 cameras were there as the victim returned home.
Detectives now want to find out if the incident is linked to a series of violent crimes that have occurred in the area over the last few months. Nearby, in the Reynoldstown neighborhoods, police said a group of men carjacked a resident of the Milltown Lofts on Wylie Street one month after attempting to carjack another resident.
A police department source said they think that crime is linked a series of other violent crimes in southeast Atlanta. Police have made some arrests but are still searching for other suspects.
East Atlanta Patch give more details about the suspects: http://bit.ly/M8hl20
Police Search For Cabbagetown Kidnapping, Robbery Suspects
By Péralte Paul
Atlanta police are looking for three armed gunmen who robbed four people in the 100 block of Estoria Street late July 3.
They stole mobile phones, wallets and a television from the home, CBS Atlanta reported.
A fifth victim — the homweowner — was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to withdraw money from nearby ATMs.
He returned two hours later. None of the victims were injured.
The kidnapping comes little more than two months after two women were kidnapped at gunpoint in Reynoldstown and Edgewood. Police are investigating to see if the incidents are related, CBS said.
Officer John Chafee, an Atlanta Police Department spokesman, gave the following account:
On July 3, around 11 p.m., officers responded to the robbery and kidnapping call on Estoria Street.
Upon arrival officers met with four of the victims who said they were sitting on their porch when three black men armed with handguns approached them. The suspects ordered the victims inside the home and robbed them.
The suspects then ordered the four victims into a room, took the fifth victim and left the scene.
Officers obtained a description of the suspects and victim and began searching for them.
While officers were still at the scene, the fifth victim returned and said he had been taken to several ATMs and forced to withdraw money.
He was then put out of the suspect vehicle, and Good Samaritan stopped to help him and gave him a ride back to Estoria Street.
Investigators are working to identify the suspects; no other details or descriptions of the gunmen were immediately available.
Anyone with information is urged to call 911 or Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404.577.TIPS (8477).
Please call 911 if you see ANYTHING suspicious.
WSB: http://bit.ly/OvdTky
Man kidnapped, robbed in porch ambush
By Richard Elliot
Atlanta police said three gunmen attacked five people sitting on a porch at a Cabbagetown home and kidnapped one of the victims.
The incident happened around 11 p.m. Tuesday at a house on Estoria Street.
Police said five residents of the home were sitting on their front porch when three gunmen walked up and forced them inside. There, police said, the bandits robbed them. Then they took one of the residents at gunpoint, forced him into their car and drove to a nearby ATM where they forced him to withdraw an undisclosed amount of money.
Police said the victim was eventually released and found a ride with a passer-by who brought him home. Channel 2 cameras were there as the victim returned home.
Detectives now want to find out if the incident is linked to a series of violent crimes that have occurred in the area over the last few months. Nearby, in the Reynoldstown neighborhoods, police said a group of men carjacked a resident of the Milltown Lofts on Wylie Street one month after attempting to carjack another resident.
A police department source said they think that crime is linked a series of other violent crimes in southeast Atlanta. Police have made some arrests but are still searching for other suspects.
East Atlanta Patch give more details about the suspects: http://bit.ly/M8hl20
Police Search For Cabbagetown Kidnapping, Robbery Suspects
By Péralte Paul
Atlanta police are looking for three armed gunmen who robbed four people in the 100 block of Estoria Street late July 3.
They stole mobile phones, wallets and a television from the home, CBS Atlanta reported.
A fifth victim — the homweowner — was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to withdraw money from nearby ATMs.
He returned two hours later. None of the victims were injured.
The kidnapping comes little more than two months after two women were kidnapped at gunpoint in Reynoldstown and Edgewood. Police are investigating to see if the incidents are related, CBS said.
Officer John Chafee, an Atlanta Police Department spokesman, gave the following account:
On July 3, around 11 p.m., officers responded to the robbery and kidnapping call on Estoria Street.
Upon arrival officers met with four of the victims who said they were sitting on their porch when three black men armed with handguns approached them. The suspects ordered the victims inside the home and robbed them.
The suspects then ordered the four victims into a room, took the fifth victim and left the scene.
Officers obtained a description of the suspects and victim and began searching for them.
While officers were still at the scene, the fifth victim returned and said he had been taken to several ATMs and forced to withdraw money.
He was then put out of the suspect vehicle, and Good Samaritan stopped to help him and gave him a ride back to Estoria Street.
Investigators are working to identify the suspects; no other details or descriptions of the gunmen were immediately available.
Anyone with information is urged to call 911 or Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404.577.TIPS (8477).
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