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A DeKalb County man was arrested Friday afternoon after allegedly kidnapping a woman from a MARTA bus at gunpoint.
DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said the suspect pulled his car in front of a MARTA bus Friday morning and forced the bus to stop near the intersection of Snapfinger Woods Drive and Wesley Chapel Road.
The man, whose name has not been released, then boarded the bus and dragged a woman off at gunpoint, Parish said.
A man suspected in two bank robberies in Cobb County was arrested Thursday in DeKalb County.
Ronald Coleman King, 47, was arrested in his car near a home in the Pleasantdale Road area by federal agents and Cobb police, said Stephen Emmett, a spokesman for the Atlanta field office of the FBI.
King, of New York City, is charged with the May 9 armed robbery of the Best Bank, inside a Kroger supermarket on Roswell Road near Robinson Road.
Tasers, cop car video cameras on county shopping list
Public safety is a major theme of today's DeKalb County commission meeting, with millions of dollars in cash and bond expenditures up for a vote.
Chief Executive Officer Vernon Jones will ask commissioners to approve a referendum for at least $6 million to pay for a new animal shelter. And there has been talk of increasing the amount to pay for other construction, such as a police academy.
Even if commissioners approve it, DeKalb voters would have still have to give the nod in a referendum during the general election in November.
An 8-year-old girl was hospitalized after being mauled by a neighbor's pit bull early Monday evening.
The girl's legs were bit repeatedly by the pit bull/Rotweiller mix who broke his chain and ran after her, said Marcus Hodge, spokesman for the DeKalb County Police Department. Her legs were covered in blood when her mother — spotting the attack from her home on the 3000 block of Patti Parkway — interceded, bashing the dog on the head with a pipe. The canine retreated and was later captured by the county's animal control unit, Hodge said.
Late Monday police had not released the names of the girl or her mother or the dog's owner.
A rush-hour chase through south DeKalb County ended Friday in a car accident and a shoot-out, leaving one man wounded, police said.
A sport-utility vehicle collided with another car around 6:30 p.m. at Flat Shoals Road and Keystone Drive, and two other cars began firing at the SUV, police spokesman Marcus Hodge said.
"It appears that the Range Rover was being followed," Hodge said. "[The driver] tried to make a quick turn into an apartment complex and hit a Mustang. That's when the men in the cars following him started firing."
The man accused of killing two DeKalb County police officers in January might have been sent to prison six months earlier except for an oversight by a probation officer and a charge dropped because of a missed court date.
The state Department of Corrections said Friday it has disciplined a probation officer and is reviewing all operations of its DeKalb office as a result of its failure to react to the June 30 arrest of William Woodard for two alleged felonies, burglary and criminal damage to property, at a home in the Atlanta portion of DeKalb County.
Woodard, who also has used the spelling "Woodward," was on six years' probation for his third felony drug conviction when he was arrested. But the judge who put Woodard on probation — and who could have sent him to prison for violating probation — was not told about the new arrest. And the judges who considered the new burglary case were not told about his probation.
The eight children left behind by two DeKalb County police officers slain in January led the pledge of allegiance at an annual police memorial ceremony Thursday.
The families of DeKalb County Police Department officers Eric Barker and Ricky Bryant were among several hundred people, many in uniform, who gathered on the Decatur Square at a monument honoring officers who died in the line of duty.
The most recent names engraved on the monument are those of Barker and Bryant. They were shot to death Jan. 16 while working an extra security job in an apartment complex.
DeKalb cops: HIV-positive man raped, assaulted women
DeKalb County police say an HIV-positive man sexually assaulted at least two women he lured to a vacant apartment by placing dating ads on the popular Craigslist web site.
Allen Jamar McDowell, 18, who listed an address off Covington Highway near Avondale Estates, is accused in separate incidents at a Kensington Road apartment near his home in March and April. One victim was raped, and the other was robbed and sexually assaulted, police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said Tuesday.
McDowell also is charged under a reckless conduct law which applies to people who know they have the virus which causes AIDS.
An employee at a DeKalb County medical clinic was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday morning, police said.
DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said the shooting occurred about 9 a.m. in the parking lot of the North DeKalb Health Center, in the 3800 block of Clairmont Road near DeKalb-Peachtree Airport.
"According to witnesses, a gentleman who worked inside one of the clinics was on his way in to work when the suspect came out of the woodline and fired multiple shots," Parish said. The 30-year-old victim was shot at least once in the neck, she said.
Nearly 150 laptop computers were stolen from a nonprofit agency that gives computers to students in poor areas, police and an official with Computers for Youth said Friday.
The New York-based organization expanded to metro Atlanta last May with an office in Lithonia. It was supposed to deliver laptops to 120 families at a west Atlanta charter school Saturda.
But Jeanne Artime, program manager for Computers for Youth-Atlanta, said she arrived at her office and warehouse Friday morning and found they had been ransacked.
