Around the Region: Teens Arrested in Coffee Shop Robbery, Man Accused of Shooting Army Buddy and Call Line Girl Stands up Date

- East Atlanta Patch

Atlanta police arrested two teens Wednesday following an early morning armed robbery at the in Glenwood Park.

No one was injured in the 9:30 a.m. robbery of the popular Garrett Street eatery.

But the theives — five to seven teens in all — took several laptop computers, an iPad, mobile phones and cash before leaving.

"They all came in — I noticed they weren't looking at anything," Drip owner Hal Miller told Patch. "I said hello and they didn't say anything."

Seconds later, one of them brandished a gun and forced everyone to the ground.

Witnesses told police the robbers fled in a white van. Police later found a white Dodge Caravan and spotted the two teens walking from it.

The two were charged with armed robbery, said John Chaffee, an Atlanta Police Department spokesman.

Police are withholding their names because they are juveniles.

The investigation continues to find the other suspects. None of the stolen items were recovered, Chaffee said.

- Suwanee Patch

A Lawrenceville man charged with shooting a former Army buddy last week in Suwanee is in custody in North Carolina.

Timothy Franklin Amstutz is being held in the Surry County (N.C.) Jail on a fugitive from justice charge and has waived extradition, according to a published report. The shooting happened on Grand Park Drive in Suwanee last Thursday, according to Suwanee Police.

The wounded man, Carmen McCurrie, is back home after having reconstructive surgery on his face, according to Rosemary Vollmar, his mother in law.

Amstutz was taken into custody by Surry County Sheriff’s deputies after they spotted his vehicle on I-77 around 3:30 a.m. Friday, according to the Mount Airy, N.C., News.

According to the newspaper report, after Timothy Amstutz was taken into custody, the sheriff’s office searched the car and found a shotgun along with a 9mm pistol and a .22-caliber pistol. Surry County Sheriff Graham Atkinson said there was also a spent shotgun shell casing in the floor of the car, however he was unsure whether the shell had been used in the shooting or if Timothy Amstutz had shot at something else later.

- Norcross Patch

On Dec. 9 at approximately 1 a.m., a Gwinnett County police officer approached two men who were running near the intersection of Oakbrook Parkway and Live Oak Parkway in unincorporated Norcross.

One of the men told police, "They're after me!" and explained that three unknown males had been shooting at him at the America's Best Inn at 6045 Oakbrook Parkway.

The victim, 32, continued to tell police that he went to America's Best to meet a woman named "Juicy," whom he just met over the phone via the Quest Hotline. They had talked on the phone at 4 p.m. and were supposed to meet at the inn an hour and a half later. After walking from his house, he said, he waited at the front of the inn, but she never showed. 

When the officer asked him why he expected the girl to still be at the hotel nine hours after their phone call, he couldn't give an answer. He said he also had no idea who had been running near him.

Three shell casings and a bullet fragment were found in the second story hallway of the hotel.