Crime & Safety
Suspect Uses Social Dating Network to Meet Robbery Victims
Inside Police Reports: 2 victims were robbed near Loganville after thinking they were meeting someone they met on "Jack'd."
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Two men were robbed in separate grab-and-dash cases in which they both thought they were meeting someone through a social media application.
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The incidents happened between 8:40 p.m. and 10:05 p.m. March 13 on Summit Creek Way near Loganville. This is an area near Rosebud Road.
In both cases, the victims were expecting to meet someone they met on the gay social network Jack’d, according to Gwinnett County Police incident reports.
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The suspect is described as a black male, age 19-23, with a thin build. He was last seen wearing a black coat and black Adidas pants.
The first victim told police he met a person named Eric on the social media app and was supposed to meet him on Summit Creek Way. When the victim reached the Range Way/Summit Creek Way intersection, the suspect came up to the car and said “I was trying to see if it was you.”
The suspect got in the car and reached for the victim’s iPhone sitting in the his lap. He told the victim he needed to call his cousin, and once the victim let his guard down, the suspect grabbed the phone and a purse in the backseat and fled on foot.
After interviewing the victim, the officer wrote in he report that he received a call about another robbery. “The description and method of the robbery matched the one from this case,” the officer wrote.
The second victim told police he was meeting a person he also met on Jack’d. He did not known the suspect’s name.
The victim said he was to meet the suspect to drink on Summit Creek Way. And when he arrived in the neighborhood, a man flagged him down from on foot and got in the car.
He asked to use the victim’s iPhone to “call his home boy for some ’bud,’” according to the incident report. The suspect took then phone and ran off. The victim also noticed his wallet was missing from the front passenger seat.
Total value of the items stolen in the two robberies was around $1,600.
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