Around the Region: iPad App Leads Police to Thief, Madam Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy and Fake Cop Attempts to Enter Home

– East Atlanta Patch

A police investigation into a stolen iPad ended in the arrests of four men last week.

The victim told police his iPad was stolen from a parked vehicle. Using the tablet's Find My iPad app, he told police the device was at the Shell Station on Moreland and McPherson avenues.

"We sent one of our investigators to that area and while en route to the location the iPad passed them going in the opposite direction," Atlanta Police Department spokesman Curtis Davenport told East Atlanta Patch. "They managed to get the vehicle stopped and made several arrests. One related to the iPad and three others related to drugs."

– Marietta Patch

A Marietta madam pleaded guilty in federal court last week to her role in a prostitution ring that brought illegal immigrants to metro Atlanta to work in brothels.

Luz M. Gutierrez, 56, was  in an operation involving federal, state and local law enforcement, including the .

She used illegal immigrants as prostitutes and housekeepers, U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said in a news release. Police  in the 300 block of Oakridge Drive in Marietta.

– Midtown Patch

A man impersonating a police officer attempted to force his way into a Home Park neighborhood residence on April 18.

A female Georgia Tech student told police that a black male wearing a black shirt with “Police” on the front of it began pounding on the front door and saying, “Police, let me in.”

The woman opened the door and “observed the person with a firearm in hand and point it at her as he attempted to make his way inside the residence,” said a police spokesperson. The resident forced the door closed and locked it as she heard the suspect say, “Go check the back.”

The suspect then left the location without further incident. The resident stated she only opened the door because the police were at her residence earlier to serve a warrant on an ex-roommate.

It marked the second time in April that an armed gunman had targeted a Tech student in the neighborhood that is just north of the school campus.