East Ridge police are investigating a home invasion robbery at Dogwood Place Apartments.
According to a police report, officers were called to the Eads Street complex just after 8 p.m. on August 21. Police spoke with a 21-year old man who was bleeding from his mouth and missing his front teeth. The man told officers that he was struck in the mouth by one of five people that forced their way into his apartment.
The man told police that he and his family along with a friend were eating dinner when there was a knock on the door. He said he looked through the peep hold but didn’t see anyone. The report states that the man opened the door and four black males and one white male entered the apartment with two of them brandishing pistols. One of the suspects asked the victim “where the money and s— was.”
The victim said he didn’t know what they were talking about, the report states. The suspects took three cell phones and an Xbox game system. One of the suspects pointed a pistol at his girlfriend and demanded her cell phone, but she refused. The man told police that he stepped between his girlfriend and the suspect and the suspect punched him in the mouth.
Knowing he was badly hurt, the man went to the kitchen, the report states. At that point, the five suspects took off.
The report states that the victim did not know any of the men who had barged into his apartment and menaced he and his family. The man told officers that he had recently purchased a small amount of marijuana from a bi-racial man he knew only as Sean. That purchase happened in the East Brainerd area.
Police spoke with the victim’s girlfriend. Her story essentially matched the victim’s. The woman told police that the man who pointed a gun at her was skinny, wearing a black polo shirt and a red bandanna. The woman said that when the man threatened her with a pistol, she was holding her toddler son in her arms.
One witness outside in the parking lot told police that the men left in a silver Nissan Altima, but couldn’t provide a tag number. The witness told police that the man driving the car was a black male with short dreadlocks. The witness also saw a young white male wearing a white shirt in the company of the suspects.
The report states that Ft. Oglethorpe police contacted ERPD in regard to an area-wide BOLO placed on the Nissan Altima. Ft. Oglethorpe officers found the vehicle at the address of a person they believe to be a high-ranking member of the Bloods.
The case has been assigned to a detective in the Criminal Investigation Division, the report states.
_ Early Thursday morning police were dispatched to the Motel 6 in regard to a theft that happened in the Food City parking lot in the 6700 block of Ringgold Road. According to a police report, the victim, a homeless man, said he was hanging out near the steps on the west side of the parking lot where he claims his cell phone and assorted clothes were stolen.
The man told officers that two young girls who may have been prostitutes showed up with an older woman and a man. The older woman, known to him only as Cici, allowed the victim to charge his phone on one of the young girls’ phone chargers. The victim said that one of the women asked him to go to the other side of the parking lot to “scavenge for cigarette butts. He told officers that the woman was very persistent in asking him to do this and he finally agreed.
When they returned only the male party was there and his clothes and phone were gone. The report states that the victim asked the man where everyone took off to and the man’s response was that they possibly had gone to the Motel 6. The report states that the woman who he knew only as Cici stole his belongings.
