The Emory Wheel regularly meets with Emory Police Department (EPD) Records Manager Ed Shoemaker (87G, 90G) and Communications Director of Campus Safety Morieka Johnson (94C, 24L). This week, the Wheel met with Captain Commander of Emergency Communications Leigh Vaughn. The Wheel 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.
Theft by taking at Lullwater Preserve
A student contacted the Emory Police Department (EPD) with a report that an unknown individual stole her backpack from Lullwater Preserve in the early afternoon of March 19. The student put her backpack down to walk through the park at about 11:30 a.m. When the student returned to where she had left her bag, it was missing.
The backpack contained a MacBook, an iPad and other smaller items. According to Vaughn, the student was able to track her iPad’s location.
An unknown individual contacted the student in the on March 20. The individual said he knew about the whereabouts of her bag and wanted the student to pay money to have the items returned. EPD worked with the student and tracked the suspect moving through campus with her iPad’s location.
EPD apprehended the suspect on North Decatur Road near the Fishburne Parking Deck at about 12:45 p.m. on March 20. The suspect, who had the stolen items on him, did not resist. EPD took him into custody and arrested him without any incident, Vaughn said.
Burglary, first degree, non-forcible entry at the Emory Conference Center Hotel
EPD met with a woman staying at the Emory Conference Center Hotel at 3:56 p.m. on March 22. The woman was staying for a work trip before leaving for a flight back to Miami. After leaving and returning to her hotel room that day, she noticed several items of jewelry were missing from her room between 10 and 11 a.m.
The items were in a travel jewelry box, which contained an engagement ring, a watch, sapphire diamond earrings, a gold ring with a sapphire band and a gold necklace. The stolen items were worth around $4,200.
Vaughn said that EPD is on the case and is actively working with loss prevention at the hotel.
Terroristic threats at Emory University Hospital
A patient at the Emory University Hospital (EUH) made a threat to a doctor at approximately 7:32 a.m. on March 23.
The patient was at EUH for a mental health evaluation and was not unhappy that a mental health doctor was evaluating him.
“I’m going to kill your a**ss,” the patient said. “Get the h***ell out of my room.”
EPD noted that the subject was confused and experiencing some mental health issues. The doctor declined to press charges, according to Vaughn.
