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Old 01-26-2009, 02:39 PM
 
Location: Originally from Cali relocated to Inman Park/Old 4th Ward/Westside Atlanta
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Robbers grab cash in Johns Creek home invasion | ajc.com (http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/northfulton/stories/2009/01/26/invade_0127.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab&imw= Y - broken link)

At least no one was hurt this time...crime can happen anywhere...even in the nicer OTP areas...
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Old 01-26-2009, 07:22 PM
 
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Wow...Johns Creek is really starting to go downhill with this skyrocketing crime.
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Old 01-26-2009, 07:42 PM
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"Preliminary indications are that it was not a random crime"...well, there you have it.
I don't think that JC residents need panic just yet.
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Old 01-26-2009, 08:01 PM
 
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This is a pattern crime -- I imagine the victims are ethnic (Asian or Hispanic) and consistently carry a large amount of cash. A similar crime (involving Asian nail salon owners) just happened in Dunwoody.

These crimes will continue to happen until these small business owners find a better business model.

(As an aside, I think these cash businesses grossly under report their earnings to the IRS -- thus the need to not deposit the cash.)
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Old 01-26-2009, 08:06 PM
 
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"Preliminary indications are that it was not a random crime"...well, there you have it.
I don't think that JC residents need panic just yet.
I can be really sarcastic at times...but...my earlier post is the type we would see several pages of if the crime had been committed in the city of Atlanta or South Fulton.
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Old 01-27-2009, 08:24 AM
 
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One of my co-workers lives in a fairly upscale subdivision in Johns Creek. About a year ago, there was a break-in there..they tied up the homeowners and robbed them. Same scenario..they were Asian business owners and the robbers followed them home from the store. Seems like this is the normal motive...it's not random crimes in these areas.
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Old 01-27-2009, 10:58 AM
 
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No...there could never be random crime in that part of Fulton County. It just doesn't happen.
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Old 01-27-2009, 11:14 AM
 
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No...there could never be random crime in that part of Fulton County. It just doesn't happen.
Seems a little too convenient to be "random crime" when there just happens to be $13k in cash sitting in the house waiting to be deposited......
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Old 01-27-2009, 11:27 AM
 
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TBH ive had more than 13k sitting around waiting to be deposited.... seems to me to be a little elaborate for 3 people to stalk a store owner, follow them home and time it up. the payout per robber is what, 4-5k?

Seems like a chance robbery. They just assumed they would score something and they did. I highly doubt they knew there would be x and y money in the house at that particular time
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Old 01-27-2009, 11:36 AM
 
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TBH ive had more than 13k sitting around waiting to be deposited.... seems to me to be a little elaborate for 3 people to stalk a store owner, follow them home and time it up. the payout per robber is what, 4-5k?

Seems like a chance robbery. They just assumed they would score something and they did. I highly doubt they knew there would be x and y money in the house at that particular time
$4-5k cash each is more than many people clear in a month. For a bunch of thugs, I'd say that'd be a pretty good score worthy of some pre-planning. Hell, many "random crimes" consists of 2 or 3 guys breaking into a house and leaving with only a plasma TV worth $1,500 or a few hundred in miscellaneous stuff. If this was one of a string of breakins it'd be one thing, but it's just too convenient that the only one in that area in a long time "happens" to net that kind of $$.
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