SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — The Sandy Springs Police Department has arrested four male suspects who were allegedly involved in carjackings throughout the city.
The first incident involved a reported theft of a vehicle Dec. 20 around 9 p.m. The owner of the vehicle was able to track its location to west Atlanta using an app on his phone.
The Sandy Springs Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit, with the assistance of the Atlanta Police Department’s Auto Crime Enforcement and Air units, quickly located the vehicle off Camp Creek Parkway.
Officers said the male suspect abandoned the vehicle in a parking lot off Fulton Street and entered another vehicle driven by a second male suspect.
As the pair fled the parking lot, their vehicle collided with a Sandy Springs detective’s patrol car.
Officers said the driver was apprehended after a brief foot pursuit. The other suspect was later apprehended attempting to carjack a nearby vehicle, officers said.
Sgt. Leon Millholland, public information officer for Sandy Springs Police, said the department conducted a response-to-resistance investigation before publicly releasing information about the incident.
The second incident began with a Jan. 23 report of five suspicious individuals dressed in all black wearing masks at Hammond Drive and Peachtree Dunwoody Road.
When officers arrived, the two suspects fled in a stolen Hyundai Sonata before crashing at Perimeter Center Parkway and Lake Hearn Drive.
Officers said the two male suspects, ages 14 and 17, were apprehended after fleeing the scene of the crash.
An investigation found that the two teenagers met at the Metro Regional Youth Detention Center on Constitution Road in Atlanta.
On the evening of Jan. 23, the suspects traveled to Sandy Springs on MARTA, broke into several cars and stole two vehicles, officers said.
The other stolen vehicle, a silver Kia…
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