Epic Security Guard Fail

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Smash-and-grab robbers hit store near Lenox | ajc.com

By JOHN SPINK, CHIP TOWERS
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Monday, June 08, 2009

Police believe a pair of smash-and-grab robberies committed early Monday morning in Buckhead are related.

Thieves used a rock to break a front window of the Blue Genes store near Lenox Mall around 4:20 a.m. Monday and made off with two van loads of merchandise. Later, police reported similar break-in at a Ritz Camera store on West Paces Ferry Road.

“We do believe it’s related,” Officer James Polite of the Atlanta Police Department said.

The bandits may have stolen as much as $100,000 worth of merchandise in the blue jean robbery, according to one of the store’s owners.

“They took everything pretty much,” said Jennifer Arrendale, who owns Blue Genes along with her twin sister. “All of the denim is gone, even from the back. I don’t know what we had on hand but this is the most they’ve gotten.”

Arrendale said it is the seventh such break-in at her store. The last one was eight months ago.

The robbers got away despite a security guard witnessing the crime.

“He drove up and sees two vans and six guys,” said Derek Sims, the husband of the store’s other owner. “But he said he was afraid to get out of the car. Then he called his dispatcher instead of 911. Actually the alarm company [Ackerman] called police.”

I do believe I'd be asking for a refund.

 

[miplank]

lol. That guy needs to find a new line of work

 

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observe and report. that is all.

 

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"Adventures of a mall cop"

 

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In Atlanta, the security guard was probably in on the whole scheme which explains the delay in responding and why he didn't call the cops himself.

 

[Dial_tone]

Wonder if it was the same security company.

Smash-and-grab burglars hit Lenox Macy’s

By MIKE MORRIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Friday, June 26, 2009

Atlanta police Friday were investigating an early morning smash-and-grab burglary at the Macy’s store at Lenox Square mall.

The break-in was reported just before 3:30 a.m. after a motion-sensor alarm sounded.

An unidentified person cleaning up broken glass inside the Macy’s Lenox store asks that no pictures be taken. Atlanta police were investigating an early-morning smash-and-grab burglary at the Macy’s store at Lenox Square mall Friday. The burglary was reported just before 3:30 a.m. after a motion-sensor alarm sounded.
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Atlanta police Sgt. Z. Wilson said about 80 pair of blue jeans worth an estimated $10,000 was taken by burglars who used an unknown object to smash a plate glass window.

Wilson said security video showed nine males with their faces covered, traveling in three vehicles.

The incident was the latest in a string of dozens of similar burglaries at clothing and other retail stores across Atlanta, including several within two blocks of the Macy’s store that was hit Friday morning.

Wilson said the burglars “know they can go in and out so quick before the alarm companies can notify us.”

At least two businesses directly across Lenox Road from Macy’s - an AT&T store and a Pearle Vision store - have been hit by smash-and-grab burglars. Thieves made off with $150,000 in designer eyewear from Pearle Vision in May, 2008.

Earlier this month, the Blue Genes store in the Around Lenox shopping center suffered its seventh break-in in eight years when thieves used a piece of asphalt to break the front window of the store before taking more than $100,000 in merchandise.

The Filene’s Basement store, just up Peachtree Road from Macy’s, was hit by smash-and-grab burglars in February and again in March.

 

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yep, security guard was in on it. That was a big time consuming operation......one call to the cops and it's over. You can't blame a security guard, who was more than likely unarmed.....for not getting out and confronting the guys. I wouldn't have gotten out either cause at worst I could get shot and at best you scare them away before the cops get there. If they leave before the cops show up, than trail behind them while talking to 911. All of this is pretty standard, which means that the guard was paid to show up late and therefor call it in late. And yeah, a simple security alarm would have solved this whole bit.