Citizens rally to arrest repeat burglary suspect in Atlanta neighborhood

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) – The alerts of fraudulent bank card expenses began pinging on Lori Moon’s mobile phone. That’s when Lori and her roommate, David Roberts, rushed into motion.

“He’s utilizing the bank card. Let’s go. Let’s go. So we jumped within the automotive,” mentioned Roberts on Thursday.

Earlier this week, Roberts and Lori got here house from a trip to search out indicators that somebody had been dwelling of their home.

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A buddy, Diane Hutchison, had stopped by to get the mail on Friday and noticed the stranger face-to-face, however he was gone by the point David and Lori returned.

However it was when the bank card expenses had been made that they realized he’d stolen the pockets of Lori’s late husband, Charlie, who’d died in September.

David and Lori went to the Mexican restaurant the place the primary cost was made. The supervisor mentioned the one that’d used it had simply left.

The 2 noticed him, recognizing him from Ring doorbell digicam footage, at a vape store subsequent door.

On Wednesday afternoon, Robert Louis Giambrone, 40, was arrested at Exhale Metropolis on Cheshire Bridge Highway.

On Thursday, an worker confirmed that they stalled till police arrived and arrested him.

Based on police, it’s his fifth arrest within the final two years.

On the time of his arrest, he was wished on an arrest warrant linked to a previous break-in, in the identical neighborhood.

“He’s fairly outstanding on this neighborhood. These three homes in a row, we’re all single feminine homeowners. Three homes in a row. He’s hit each certainly one of us,” mentioned Kathryn LaTour, who had been a sufferer of a break-in by Giambrone in late April.

LaTour woke as much as discover Giambrone standing in her bed room.

“I mentioned I’m trapped in right here – I don’t have a approach to get out of this bed room with out passing him,” LaTour remembered, in an interview final week.

LaTour grabbed a gun close by and shot at him twice, lacking.

Giambrone ran away. LaTour known as 911 and filed a police report.

It was Giambrone’s sixth break-in in a yr’s time alongside LaTour’s avenue in Backyard Hills.

He was recognized on one other neighbor’s doorbell cameras.

On Thursday, Roberts mentioned, in rallying to arrest the suspected burglar, they had been simply doing what each citizen ought to do.

He and Lori – who’ve now put in a collection of exterior cameras – hope the court docket system may also help hold Giambrone from coming again.

“Hopefully the DA will hold him lock up for some time and he’ll be taught his methods,” mentioned Roberts.

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