Crime & Safety

Scooter Snatchers Get Snared in Cabbagetown

A couple of watchful residents led to arrests.

REYNOLDSTOWN — Quick-thinking from watchful residents helped police arrest two people accused of stealing a scooter Wednesday evening.

Just after 8 p.m., police were called to the intersection of Manigualt and Weatherby streets after an alert resident saw two men pushing a scooter he recognized as belonging to his neighbor.

He called 911 and the scooter's owner as he followed the accused theives.

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At some point, he noted they ditched the scooter behind a house on Kenyon Street, but was told by the 911 dispatcher to stop following.

Another witness saw them pushing the scooter again and told a neighbor to call 911 while he approached them with a ruse of offering gasoline.

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That's when the older of the two suspects kicked him in the leg and attempted to hit him.

The two accused thieves then ran, crisscrossing through several streets and into neighboring Cabbagetown.

Following a number of sightings by officers and residents, police were able to confine the two suspects to a one block area between Berean Avenue and Powell Street.

They were apprehended shortly thereafter behind a home in the 200 block of Berean and taken into custody without incident. The scooter was found in the 100 block of Estoria Street.

Arrested were Willie Holt, 33, and a juvenile. Holt was charged with theft by taking, theft by receiving, battery and obstruction and transported to Fulton County Jail.

The juvenile, who was not named because of his age, was fingerprinted and was then released to his mother.


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