Crime Blotter, Oct. 21-26

Motel 6 armed robbery
A man and woman staying at the Motel 6 (2810 Lawrenceville Highway) were victims of an armed robbery Oct. 26, police said.

At about 1:58am, the woman told police her boyfriend had left the room and she was standing outside the room smoking when she saw a man pacing back and forth in the motel parking lot. The suspect approached her and forced her into the room, pointing a black handgun at her. He asked her where the money was. He put the gun into her mouth and held her down on the bed before placing the gun on the dresser and to search for her clothes. She had $1,000 hidden inside the right cup of her bra, so he found that and took it. He also took her cell phone.

The suspect tied her hands behind her back and tied her legs together with white zip ties before locking her in the bathroom. She heard the suspect search the room and ransack it. By this time, the woman’s boyfriend had returned from smoking a cigarette in his car. He’d heard a door lock and saw the suspect run across the parking lot before getting into an unknown white sedan and driving onto Lawrenceville Highway.

The man went into the room and helped the woman get out of the zip ties. A clerk at the motel was unable to access the surveillance system.

The suspect was described as a black man, about 20 to 25 years old, 6 feet 1 inch tall, wearing a baseball cap, brown shirt and blue jeans.

Gunshots near Kroger
A man filling up at the gas station at 2875 North Decatur Rd. on Oct. 21 heard gunshots nearby, DeKalb County police said.

At about 4:38pm, the man said he was at pump seven when he heard two gunshots behind him. He turned and saw a black Chrysler PT Cruiser containing an unknown male driver and female passenger. There was a third shot and the man saw the PT Cruiser’s passenger side window shatter outward. The man said a woman inside the vehicle screamed and the driver drove toward Lawrenceville Highway.

The man did not notice any descriptive features of the people in the car nor did he get the tag number. The gas station clerk did not hear or see anything either.

Robbery at Shell gas station
A woman was attacked, and her purse was stolen outside the Shell gas station at 570 DeKalb Industrial Way on Oct. 21, police said.

At about 11:38 am, the woman said the suspect attacked her as she was exiting the store in the gas station. The suspect punched in the shoulder and grabbed her purse. She tried to stop him, but he threw her to the ground. Her vision became blurry, and he fled the scene with her purse. The purse contained almost $11,000 in cash, a Visa credit card (which she canceled) and her Social Security card. She was treated for minor injuries but didn’t go to the hospital.

Forest Green Drive burglary
A home on the 1900 block of Forest Green Drive was burglarized on Oct. 23, police said.

A police officer driving down the block was flagged down by a man in an Audi who said he’d received a call from a neighbor saying that the alarm for his shed went off, so he wanted him to go check the property. The man went and saw that someone broke the lock off the shed and stole a tool bag on the shelf.

The kinds of tools taken are unknown.

Kirkland Drive burglary
There was a burglary on the 2400 block of Kirkland Drive on Oct. 24, police said.

A woman told police that someone broke into her friend’s house sometime between 7pm Oct. 22 and 11am Oct. 24. The suspect got in by breaking a glass door at the back of the house. Items taken from the house include a 48-inch flat-screen TV, two 20-inch flat-screen TVs, two Apple desktop computers, two Apple laptop computers and an iPad. The serial numbers for these items were not available.

The victim was not present at the time and did not have an alarm system.