Fake Uber Driver, Accomplices Kidnap and Rob Men Leaving Bar

SANDY SPRINGS, GA -- Two men and a woman were arrested and charged with robbing three men who thought they were hitching a ride home with an Uber driver in Sandy Springs.

Roswell residents Christopher Hunter, 23 and Shmar S. Burdick, 21, have been charged three counts each of armed robbery, false imprisonment and kidnapping and one count each of possession of a firearm or knife during the commission of a felony.

Lioumilda Mazourenko, 21, of Alpharetta is also charged with three counts each of armed robbery, false imprisonment and kidnapping. She also faces an additional charge of conspiracy to commit a felony and has a hold placed on her by Conyers police.

Sandy Springs police were dispatched around 3:34 a.m. Dec. 9 to a home near the intersection of Apperley Place and Dunwoody Creek Circle.

Officers met with the three victims who said they'd just been robbed.

According to an incident report released by the agency, the men left Stagecoach Bar on Irby Avenue in Buckhead and contacted the ride sharing service to take them to a location in Midtown Atlanta. As they waited, a small maroon-colored SUV pulled up to the curb.

One of the victims asked if the driver if he was with Uber, and the male answered "yes," the report states.

A woman, later identified as Mazourenko, was sitting in the front seat and proceeded to move to the back. One of the victims began to get into the front passenger seat, but was told by the driver he would have to sit in the back due to his plans to also take a friend home.

That friend, later identified as Burdick, was seen exiting Stagecoach and got into the front seat. The vehicle made its way to S.R. 400 northbound, the opposite direction from where the trio was headed, the report notes.

One of the victims told police that "he and his two friends became concerned and felt certain that these people were not Uber employees," the incident report states. He later told one friend to call 911 from his cell phone, but could not remember if the call was ever activated.

All six occupants finally arrived to a location on Dunwoody Creek Circle. The driver backed the vehicle into a driveway and parked the car. The driver and front seat passenger both got out of the vehicle, as did the victims.

At that point, one of the suspects approached the one of the men from the rear, "pressed an unknown object in the middle of his back" and demanded he hand over his possessions.

All three victims had their wallets and cell phone stolen while the female accomplice "stood off to the side" during the alleged robbery, the report notes.

One of the men were able to get tag number of the suspected vehicle, and Roswell police were able to track down the car in the Kroger parking lot at 2300 Holcomb Bridge Road.

All three victims positively identified the men and woman involved in the robbery, and the suspects were taken into custody.

Records show the trio remain held without bond at the Fulton County Jail.

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