Two Druid Hills Robberies Have Emory on Alert
October 27, 2009 | 11:35 amEmory just sent out this crime report [via Clairmont Heights Civic Assoc], which many of the major news outlets are now rewriting into little story blurbs.
October 26, 2009. To the Emory Community: This message is being provided to the Emory community as a public service. Two crimes recently were reported as occurring outside of the University’s campus, but the locations were close enough that we wanted to alert you to exercise caution when in those areas, particularly after dark.
• On Sunday, October 25, at approximately 9 p.m., an Emory student reported being robbed at gunpoint in front of her apartment building at Clairmont Reserve Apartments, across from the Clairmont Campus. The woman, whose purse was stolen, was not physically harmed. The assailant escaped in a red, two-door vehicle. A description of the assailant was not available.
• On Friday, October 23, at approximately midnight, a woman reported being robbed at gunpoint on the sidewalk in front of 1450 N. Decatur Rd near the Oakdale Rd. intersection. The woman, whose purse was stolen, was not physically harmed. The two assailants were described as:
• A black male, about 30 years old, 6’4”, 170 lbs., green shirt, light-colored pants;
• A black male, 6’0”, light-colored jeans, white/blue/red plaid shirt, white skull cap with blue stripe.
Both incidents are being handled by the DeKalb Police Department. Anyone having information relevant to these incidents is encouraged to call the DeKalb Police Department at 770-724-7850.
In juxtaposition to that, my weekly email from CrimeReports.com shows no real crime inside the Decatur city-limits in the past week. Apparently the email isn’t all that accurate in reporting what’s actually on the map.
I think the reason you’re seeing no real crime to speak of is because the link you provided to Crime Reports only has traffic crimes selected under the “Crime Types” menu. Unfortunately, if you select “Show All,” the picture for Decatur doesn’t look quite so rosy with a couple of thefts, a drug deal and what looks like a kidnapping.
crimereports.com lets you select exactly what things you want to see. It also looks to me like the updates have been less than consistent the past few weeks and I’ve inquired about that to the PD.
Sorry I shouldn’t have used that link.
As I stated in my post, the email that was sent noted no crime in the past week. My observation had nothing to do with the map. However, if you look at the past 7 days there are indeed 4 thefts on the map, over the last 3 days. I’m not sure why the email didn’t note those.
That said, that kidnapping is indeed alarming.
In the email alert request, you can say which types of crimes you want to be reported to you and within what radius of whatever address you use.
Seems like this pair may be branching out from the Emory area. A red car was seen just prior to someone getting robbed at gunpoint near the Nature Preserve Sunday evening. From our neighborhood email watch, “10/25 Robbery at Gun Point: (Case Number: 09-127991) A neighbor walking in the 2300 Block of Harrington drive (Near where Harrington and Pine Bluff meet) in the evening was robbed at gunpoint. … A neighbor had been walking down the street and was held up at gunpoint for his wallet. The neighbor had seen a red sports car go by earlier, then someone approached him on foot. After taking his wallet, the mugger ran off and the neighbor heard a car speed away from somewhere nearby.”