Report: Street Person Ricky Love Returns to Midtown

A street person who was allegedly behind several random attacks in the Midtown area before being banished from Fulton County by a judge in 2008 has returned to his old haunts, a Midtown security group reports.

According to the Midtown Ponce Security Alliance, Ricky Love was spotted on North Avenue and then Ponce De Leon Avenue and Myrtle Street on Thursday. The alliance says that Love is irrational and dangerous and that police have had to use special tactics to handle the man in the past.

Love has a history of terrorizing Midtown residents, the alliance says. In 2006, Love allegedly attack a random passerby on Peachtree Street and left her with significant bruising to her head and neck. The woman was able to pick Love out of a police lineup and he was arrested for the attack.

In 2008, Love was sentenced in to ten years in prison, with two years credit for time served. However, the sentence was suspended as long as Love underwent mental health treatment and stayed out of Fulton County.

“If you encounter Ricky Love we implore you to steer well clear of him, and if he approaches you be very attentive as you calmly move to a safer location,” The alliance writes on its website. “

If he is having an episode...call 911 immediately, as this is when he is most imminently dangerous to bystanders and passers-by.”

Photo Credit: Midtown Ponce Security Alliance/Fulton County Sheriff’s Office