Content Warning: This article contains references to sexual assault.
The Emory Wheel regularly meets with Emory Police Department (EPD) Records Manager Ed Shoemaker (87G, 90G) and Director of Campus Safety Communications Morieka Johnson (94C) 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.
Criminal trespass and property damage at Candler Mansion
Between midnight and 1 a.m. on Oct. 9, EPD responded to an alarm from Candler Mansion, which is located on Emory’s Briarcliff campus.
When the officers responded to the alarm, they discovered that an unknown party appeared to have forced several doors open. EPD entered the building, cleared it and checked the house to see if anyone was there, but they did not find anyone.
Afterward, EPD contacted Facilities Management to secure the doors. While the cost of the damage has not been made official, EPD believes it will cost less than $500 to board up the doors.
It was clear that whoever entered the building only did so briefly. EPD has not located whoever entered the building, according to Shoemaker.
Robbery by sudden snatch, theft by deception outside Emory Student Center
An unknown man robbed a female student on Asbury Circle outside the Emory Student Center between 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 10.
The man approached the student and asked if he could borrow her phone to make a call. He made several phone calls, deleted the numbers from her call log, and then handed the phone back to the student.
The suspect walked away in the general direction of McDonough Field next to the George W. Woodruff Physical Education Center. He soon returned a few minutes later and offered the student $50 if she would let him use her phone to make an electronic wire transaction. She agreed and he handed her the $50. She reported that he made one or more transactions and gave the phone back but immediately snatched the $50 back and fled the area.
When she looked at her phone, she discovered the suspect had erased her bank app from her phone and obtained over $1,700 from her bank account. He had sent the money through Zelle to someone unfamiliar to her, according to Shoemaker.
EPD tried to contact this third party because the number was still on the phone, but it has not received any response. The case is still under active investigation.
Public indecency, disorderly conduct while under the influence outside Complex Hall
EPD officers responded early in the morning on Oct. 15 to a report of a naked man yelling outside of the Complex dorms between around 12:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m.
The officers arrived and located the individual lying on his side, screaming and punching one of the dorm’s exterior windows. The police removed him from the area and handcuffed him.
EPD retrieved a blanket, covered the man and contacted EMS to respond to the scene. EPD eventually learned that he was an Emory student who had reportedly consumed magic mushrooms, according to Shoemaker.
EPD restrained the student to a stretcher and put him on an ambulance that took him to Emory University Hospital. Shoemaker said that EPD also notified various student support services about the incident.
The student violated two Atlanta city ordinances: public indecency and disorderly conduct under the influence of drugs or alcohol. EPD will not move forward with prosecuting the student on either account, and what the University ultimately decides to do is not within EPD’s control.
