The Emory Wheel regularly meets with Emory Police Department (EPD) Records Manager Ed Shoemaker (87G, 90G) and Communications Director of Campus Safety Morieka Johnson (94C, 24L) and uses EPD’s public crime log to inform the Emory University community about recent crime on and around Emory’s campuses.
To report a crime, contact EPD at 404-727-6111 or police@emory.edu.
Identity fraud at Emory University Hospital
A patient at Emory University Hospital (EUH) contacted EPD at about 9:20 a.m. on Sept. 24 about potential identity fraud. During a cardiology appointment on Sept. 9, the cardiologist referred to a previous electrocardiogram (EKG) scan under the patient’s name, dated July 17. The patient stated that she had never received an EKG at that time or at any other time.
The complainant discovered that someone entered the emergency department at EUH on July 17, suffering from a drug overdose and resulting cardiac arrest. She reported to EPD that this emergency room patient had used her information to complete their treatment at the hospital, resulting in the hospital billing her for medical services she did not receive.
The complainant suspects that the defendant potentially found her information inside a house she recently sold. EPD has assigned an investigator to the case.
Theft by taking at Emory University Hospital
An anesthesia technician working in the operating room suite on the third floor of EUH contacted EPD shortly after midnight on Sept. 24. The technician reported three missing anesthesia breathing modules to EPD.
The technician said he checked the hospital’s software to see the last checkout time of the three missing devices. The software indicated that someone used the modules at approximately 6:00 p.m. on Sept. 24, and they had been missing since then.
These modules cost $8,000 each, totaling a $24,000 loss for EUH. The technician provided EPD with photographs of the devices and their serial numbers. EPD listed the devices as stolen property on the National Crime Information Center. EPD has assigned an investigator to the case to follow up on the incident.
Criminal trespass at Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
The Associate Director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library called EPD at about 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 28 about a suspicious person at the library. The director informed EPD of a man who walked into the building and tried to sign in. The man said he worked for Emory. The director did not recognize the man and asked for identification. The man replied that they did not have an ID on them. The director informed the man that the library was a secure facility, and they could not let him in without identification.
The man complied, and the director gave him directions on how to exit the building. Instead of following these directions, the man walked upstairs and out toward the Rollins School of Public Health, adjacent to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library building.
The director left the library to see which way the man went, but lost sight of him. The director then called EPD, who checked the area but could not locate the suspect. The associate director knew the man’s name and gave it to the officers. EPD had given the man a criminal trespass warning three weeks prior, and the officers recognized him on the library’s surveillance footage. A criminal trespass warning means that a person can not return to Emory property unless for emergency medical service.
EPD then went to court and obtained a warrant for his arrest for violating the original criminal trespass warning.
