Crime Blotter, Sept. 25-28

A series of public storage unit break-ins

Many units at the Public Storage, 2080 Briarcliff Road, were damaged overnight between Sept. 25 and 26, DeKalb County police said.

A woman who lives in an apartment on the property was notified of damage to a storage unit. She went to investigate and found that the door had been pried open on that unit and that the suspect then punctured the wall of that unit to get into the one next to it.

The suspect also broke into a gray storage trailer by prying off a door handle, forced open four consecutive storage units, punctured the wall of one to get into the adjacent units, repeated the same puncturing process for those adjacent units and went into a different storage building next to it. The forced entry and puncturing happened again in the other building. Many of the units broken into were in disarray and there were two holes in the perimeter fence.

While the property has a video surveillance system, the cameras were positioned so that they could not record the incident. It is unknown at this time if anything was taken from the units.

Trailmark Drive burglary

A burglary was reported on the 2100 block of Trailmark Drive on Sept. 27, police said.

The victim said that he received a call from his alarm system company at 5pm and was told the alarm was going off, so he told the company not to send police because he was on his way home. He saw that the back door window was shattered, but told police nothing was taken.

Armed robbery attempt on Pace Park Drive

A woman was held up at gunpoint on the 4300 block of Pace Park Drive on Sept. 28, police said.

The victim told police she was arriving home at about 5:15am and when she was getting out of her car, an unknown person came up to her, holding a handgun and demanding money. She told the man she had no money. He demanded she take him to an ATM but again she said she did not have any money.

The man then said “I will shoot you in the foot if you think I am playing,” shooting the gun in the air, punching her in the mouth and fleeing. She refused EMS care and the police officers noted a shell casing from a 9mm gun by her car.

The suspect is described as a black male wearing a mask and baggy clothing.

Woman forced to prostitute on Shallowford Road

A woman told police on Sept. 28 that her boyfriend has been forcing her to prostitute herself on Shallowford Road, police said.

The woman said that, three hours before talking to an officer, her boyfriend told her “you better get out there and ho. I am not afraid to go to jail” and sent her out to the road, next to the . While the woman signed a Miranda form and began to write a statement, she stopped writing midway.