A Lithonia man told police that two men attempted to come inside his room and rob him while staying at a Motel 6 in unincorporated Norcross. The man, 18 of Lithonia, reported to Gwinnett County police that he had been staying at the Motel 6 at 6015 Oakbrook Parkway for about a week. On March 18 around 5:45 a.m., he was sleeping when he heard someone banging on the door, according to the police report. He opened the curtains and saw two unknown men standing outside. When he asked them what they wanted, one of them said to open the door while the other continued to bang on the door. They also …

A man was allegedly robbed at gunpoint on Brook Hollow Parkway after accepting a ride from three men last week. According to the Norcross Police report, the 26-year-old man had been near the Motel 6 in unincorporated Norcross around 9:45 p.m. on March 13. He was approached by three males in a burgundy Mercury Grand Marquis. They asked him if he needed a ride, and he said yes. He told police that they made him sit in the front seat of the car because they didn't trust him. The men were worried he'd rob them, the report says. The four drove to Brook Hollow Parkway. When they approached the Red …

Five youngsters said they had a gun pointed at them while outside a QuikTrip in the Norcross area earlier this month. Four women and one man, all in their late teens and early 20s, decided to go to the 6065 Singleton Road gas station March 4 around 4:45 a.m., according to the police report. The four women wanted to go inside the store, so they stepped out of the car while the man stayed. The four started walking toward the QT convenience store when two nearby men began verbally harassing them. The women continued into the store, but when they exited and walked back to their car, the men were …

A local man was allegedly beaten and robbed of $2,500 in his own apartment last week. According to the Gwinnett County Police report, a police officer was doing a routine check at an apartment complex on the 5700 block of Singleton Road at 3 a.m. Feb. 27. While on the check, he saw a man came running through the complex's parking lot with blood all over him. The man, 36, told the officer how he had been drinking alone in his apartment when two men came knocking on the door around 1:45 a.m. that Monday. He didn't recognize them, he told police, but he opened the door. They pushed their way …

A woman told police that a man showed his penis to her while she was walking her dog last week. According to the Norcross Police report, a woman had been walking her dog with her cousin, her brother and her father down Station Circle in the city of Norcross. She told police that she heard a knock on a window of one of the homes as she passed it. She looked to the window and allegedly saw a heavy-set male standing there. He was wearing a dark blue shirt while holding and waving his penis in a circular motion, she told police. A Norcross officer checked out the home, but found no one in the …

A man was shot and another was kidnapped last Saturday at an apartment complex in unincorporated Norcross. Units tended to the shot victim and the kidnapped victim was located later unharmed, according to police. According to the Gwinnett County police report, the incident took place at Arbor Mill Apartments on Graves Road around 7:30 a.m. Feb. 25. Three men and one woman, ages ranging from 19 to 23, met with police at the complex's entrance and told them how three to four men came into their apartment and shot one of their friends. The men had masks and guns. Police went to the apartment and…

A man was arrested for a domestic aggravated assault case where he beat another man with a baseball bat in the city of Norcross. According to the Norcross Police report, the incident took place last Saturday, Feb. 18, around 4:30 p.m. on the 2100 block of Newbury Road. The Atlanta man had gone to his ex-girlfriend's house to pick up their daughter, and while in the driveway, an argument erupted between the two exes. Her new boyfriend appeared and told the ex to leave. Angry, the suspect grabbed a metal bat from his car and hit the boyfriend with it, breaking his arm. He also tackled the …

Another incident involving guns and road rage was reported last month, this time in the city of Norcross. According to the Norcross Police report, the incident took place Jan. 25 at 9 a.m. when 41-year-old man exited I-85 North turned left on the Jimmy Carter Boulevard. The man told police that he noticed a BMW was driving erratically in and out of the lanes. When the BMW drove in front of him, he honked his horn. While both cars waited for a light change, the man said, the BMW driver reached into the backseat and held up what looked like a black, sawed-off shotgun. The victim said he …

The owner of a Blimpie allegedly came after a woman with a knife when she asked for free sweet peppers earlier this month. According to the Gwinnett County Police report, the 46-year-old Snellville woman walked into the Blimpie at 1740 Indian Trail Road in unincorporated Norcross around 4:10 p.m. on Feb. 6 and asked for some sweet peppers. The owner, 35 of Lawrenceville, told her he couldn't give any sweet peppers away unless she gets them on a sub. According to the woman, she told him that she goes to Blimpie all the time for sweet peppers, and he started yelling at her to get out of the …

Norcross PD arrested two men after finding them in the act of stealing truck parts from a Tropicana branch earlier this month. A suspicious persons call was received around 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 5 to report that two males were behind a business at 2885 Pacific Drive in the city of Norcross. According to the police report, the business kept many large, refrigerated trucks there to transport juice. When a Norcross officer responded to the scene, he noticed a man with a large build walk toward a fence with a hole cut in it. The officer saw several large objects outside the fence, which police later…

A bomb threat-attempted robbery was reported at Universal Check Cashing earlier this month in the city of Norcross. No injuries were reported and nothing was reported taken. According to the Norcross Police report, around 8:38 p.m. on Feb. 1 a woman came into the 6367 Jimmy Carter Boulevard store. Walking around until the last customer left, the woman retrieved a piece of paper and began to write on it. The employee working the store, 24, told police that the woman came up to her window and displayed the note, which read, "If you don't give me $5,000 I will blow the place up, I have a grenade…

A man was allegedly robbed by gunpoint after going into a hotel room to meet with a prostitute late last month. According to the police report, the 26-year-old man arrived at the Ramada Inn in unincorporated Norcross around 7 p.m. on Jan. 20. He told Gwinnett County Police that he made contact with a thin, short female, who invited him into one of the rooms at the 5885 Rockbridge Court hotel. Once he was in the room, a man exited the bathroom and pulled out a handgun, according to the statement. Pushing him against the wall and saying, "Give me all your money," the suspect took $50 out of the…

A mother and daughter were allegedly scammed into buying two iPads and an Apple laptop while at QuikTrip late last month. The incident is somewhat similar to another report of a woman scammed into buying a MacBook Pro in a Walmart parking lot in Lilburn. According to the police report, the 32-year-old woman was with her 51-year-old mom at QuikTrip, located at 5095 Oakbrook Parkway in unincorporated Norcross, around 12:30 p.m. Jan. 24. She told Gwinnett County Police that she and her mom were approached by two men in the parking lot who said they were selling iPads and Apple laptops. The women…

Just days before being arrested Jan. 18 for a series of armed robberies in the Gwinnett County area, Derrick Cage allegedly robbed a check cashing business in unincorporated Norcross. On Jan. 16 around 11:32 a.m., the 28-year-old light-skinned black male walked into 1% Check Cashing at 5050 Jimmy Carter Boulevard. According to the Gwinnett police report, the man looked around first until he asked the 22-year-old employee if he could look at a watch in the case. She presented the watch to him and began walking away. Cage then brandished a black handgun and pushed and forced the employee toward…

A man claimed that a driver pulled a gun on him after a cut-off incident on the highway earlier this month. According to the police report, a 48-year-old man from Auburn, Ga., was driving southbound on I-85 around 3:45 p.m. on Jan. 13. The man told police that he was in the far right lane near the Beaver Ruin exit when a white 2012 Cadillac attempted to get off the exit. The driver of the Cadillac changed his mind, though, and cut off the Auburn man in order to continue on I-85. The man decided to change lanes shortly after, and the Cadillac followed suit. The Cadillac driver stuck up his …

One woman and two men were arrested last week for false imprisonment, kidnapping, motor vehicle theft and aggravated assault, all because of an ex-boyfriend. On Jan. 11 around 11:07 p.m., Gwinnett County Police officers met with a 19-year-old woman in response to a carjacking that took place at Indian Trail Apartments at 1100 Indian Trail Lilburn Road in unincorporated Norcross. The report notes that the woman was upset and crying and had red marks around her neck. She explained to police how two Norcross area brothers, 18 and 17, and an 18-year-old woman had assaulted her in the apartment …

A man was arrested for allegedly cutting his neighbor and stealing his cell phone last month after accusing the neighbor of burglarizing his property. The incident occurred Dec. 29 around 5 p.m. at an apartment complex on the 1100 block of Meadowood Commons Drive in the City of Norcross. According to the police report, the neighbor, a 19-year-old man, said the suspect stopped him in the parking lot. Having been burglarized recently, the man believed his neighbor was either responsible for it or knew who did it. The 19-year-old told Norcross Police that the man had asked him several times to …

A woman was robbed last month after she got into a car with a man who volunteered to drive her back to her car from a bar. The woman, a 25-year-old from Pennsylvania, called authorities Dec. 27 around 12:18 a.m. to report the incident. According to the police report, she was having drinks at Oceans Bar and Grill, formerly Barnacle's, located at 5955 Jimmy Carter Boulevard in unincorporated Norcross, with some people who were also visiting from Pennsylvania that night. She told the bar patrons that she needed to get a taxi because her car had broken down at the Waffle House on Old Peachtree …

Six days after being robbed, a Sprint store in the City of Norcross was reportedly burglarized late one evening. Norcross Police officers arrived at the cell phone store located on the 6000 block of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard around 11:36 p.m. on Dec. 27 after the business burglar alarm went off. According to the police report, the suspect or suspects broke the glass to the front door by smashing it with a large rock.  After the business owner was notified and arrived at his store, he told police that cash from two register drawers had been taken, one of which was from an undamaged safe. …

A Gwinnett County Police officer was conducting weekly taxi inspections at the permits office when a taxi driver asked to speak with the officer in person. The taxi driver, 43, of Duluth, unraveled an odd story of him being robbed by a woman four or five months ago while working in unincorporated Norcross around Jimmy Carter Boulevard, Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and Buford Highway. According to the police report, she had waved him down and told him she needed to go to a Quik Trip on Jimmy Carter. She didn't have any money, the driver said, but her friends waiting at the QT would pay him. …