The Emory Wheel regularly meets with Emory Police Department (EPD) Records Manager Ed Shoemaker (87G, 90G) 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.
Theft by shoplifting at Emory Point’s CVS Pharmacy
A Point security officer informed EPD at about 9:20 p.m. on Oct. 29 that a “serial shoplifter” entered the store that night. A CVS employee reported the incident to the security guard.
A CVS manager told EPD that the suspected shoplifter returned to the store at about 8:50 p.m. The store manager described the woman as about 5’4” with red braids, wearing a gray and blue jacket, black pants, an orange and white hoodie and blue.
EPD reviewed the CVS’s footage and found the female picking items up off the shelf and placing them inside the jacket she was wearing. According to the store manager, she found accounts on Facebook Marketplace selling makeup items in the area and located a page with bins of makeup listed for sale. The store manager said she suspected these were the same items that the suspect stole from the CVS.
EPD gathered the video footage, photographs and an itemized list of stolen items. EPD has assigned an investigator to follow up and look into the alleged individual as well as the alleged attempts to resell the property.
Criminal trespass at Emory West
A complainant told EPD around 7:00 a.m. on Oct. 29 that an unknown individual had parked a red SUV on the Emory West Building B property, which is an abandoned building surrounded by a chain link fence. EPD arrived at the scene and told anyone inside to exit with their hands raised. When nobody responded, EPD attempted to use the vehicle’s licence plate information to locate a phone number and contact the vehicle’s owner. The SUV contained pipes, pieces of copper and tools.
EPD officers entered the building and located a subject in a crouched position. The police officers demanded the subject reveal himself, the man emerged with a bag and a flashlight. The suspect dropped the items, but once officers told him to get down on the ground, he turned and ran toward the exit. EPD officers who covering that exit subdued and handcuffed him.
Police officers removed the subject from the building, after which the man told EPD that there were as many as five other individuals in the facility’s boiler room. EPD searched for the other individuals but determined that the conditions in the area were not safe for the officers and ended the search.
The subject told EPD he was homeless and walked into the building to get out of the weather, and that the red SUV was there when he arrived. He said he saw a female and four men, but did not interact with them.
EPD brought the subject to the police department and arrested him for criminal trespass, loitering and prowling, burglary and possession of tools for the commission of a crime.
Officers transported the subject to the DeKalb County Jail, where he is awaiting the rest of the legal process. EPD were unable to find the other alleged individuals and confirmed that the subject was not the registered owner of the red SUV.
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.
