Atlanta Foot Locker Smash & Grab Update
Yesterday, we reported on the Foot Locker that was burglarized and in the report we mentioned that it might have happen here in Atlanta. By now, you’ve probably heard that it did happen in ATL. However, last night I spoke with one of the Foot Locker managers, and he gave me the scoop.
Note: Some of the info below was not reported by the Atlanta news. The additional info was provided by a manger that works for Foot Locker who saw the surveillance camera tape.
Two Foot Lockers were broken into late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning by a total of 12 people including 2 adults and teens from Mechanicsville, which is a neighborhood in Atlanta. APD (Atlanta Police Department) also has reason to believe that two of the members belong to the “30 Deep” Gang. The burglars stole two vans and a car to pull off their not-so successful robbery. They broke into the Foot Locker on Campbellton Road in Atlanta by driving a van through the front of the store and stole a bunch of footwear.
However, the manger told me they walked past the entire stock of Space Jams, most likely because of rushing, but was able to get away with other footwear. While on Campbellton Rd., they also broke into the Campbellton Smoke Shop, and stole boxes of cigarettes worth a total value of $3,500.
After they hit the Foot Locker on Campbellton Rd, a half hour later they headed to the Metropolitan Parkway aka Stewart Ave Foot Locker. The same method was repeated at this Foot Locker, and they spent a total of two minutes and a few seconds in the Metropolitan Foot Locker and then fled the scene with the Space Jams and other footwear.
Keep in mind that the smash and grab was caught on camera, but was not released to the Atlanta media because the APD is still investigating this smash and grab case.
Here’s where the story gets interesting. Within a few hours, 6 out of the 12 people were caught in Mechanicsville, and the police caught them with all the merchandise. That’s crazy, right? A total of 12 Space Jams were stolen and recovered before the burglars were able to sell them. Overall, the total value of stolen merchandise was well over $10,000.
As of right now, the APD is still looking for the other 6 burglars. It’s being said that the crew of 12 consisted of a few females and males from Mechanicsville that originally planned to make some holiday cash but will end up spending the holidays at the Fulton County Rice Street Jail.
Source: Foot Locker manager and CBSAtl
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footlocker got got
damn thats good for them
World stupidest criminals, lol. Ohhh well gotta make sum how!
“walked past the entire stock of Space Jams, most likely because of rushing”
THANK GOD!
People like that should be excecuted
Foot Locker got got? What an ignorant comment, grow up and quit being ignorant.
Despicable, it’s the Season of Giving, not the Season of Stealing. They could have at least did what most people did, buy the Space Jam and resell it. I personally don’t like the idea of resell, but do it because you HAVE to not because you WANT to.
Anyway, Merry Christmas TSG and my NT Fam. God Bless… 1
Same exact thing happened at the mall here in Sacramento,CA. People were beating eachother up just for the Space Jams. There were cops dressed in all white inside the mall. All this madness just for the release of the kicks. Gotta love the Space Jams lol
It’s a sad world people. Then again these types of things have been happening for quite some time, but stay away from the damn sneakers!
I would have done the same but not go that far and go into different places just grab me a couple of space jams and sell them
STUPID AZZ KIDDS
shoes and cigarettes really??? lol thats stupid
Crazy…..that’s Atlanta for u…lol
What a damn f*#ken shame….glad I don’t be affiliated wit jail-bait muthaf*#kas anymore….& when they do come around, I’d brush em off & front like “Hey mayne, we can’t be around each other cuz be both on probation.” Anyhow, good writtens on them half way azz crooks….
*we both….kfc fingers
what tards
“footlocker got got”
Which explains why the article clearly says “Within a few hours, 6 out of the 12 people were caught in Mechanicsville, and the police caught them with all the merchandise.”
Reading is fundamental.
This just made my Christmas day!!
Criminal #1 “How should we spend the holidays?”
Criminal #2 “How’z ’bout we all get together and get arrested for a stupid crime and spend our next 6-12 holiday seasons locked up together?”
Whole Group “HOOOORAY FOR GOOD IDEAS!!!!!”
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THE 12 THIEVES FROM IDIOTSBURG GEORGIA!!
Idiotsburg Georgia? With english like yours I wouldn’t use the word “idiotsburg” so lightly…..— It’s funny that you went back and corrected one of the forty seven errors in your post.
^Got two of you confused.. lol… MERRY CHRISTMAS!
^^LOL someone’s gettin’ a bit salty…..were you married to one of the guys who’s going to prison for stealing sneakers?
Anyhow, those grey/teal Griffey’s are on Osneaker in sizes 8-10, for $220.00….spend that Christmas cash the way we all know you want to lol….
And yet you resulted to homosexual comedy? Hilarious… but you did it all wrong…
tokyo mike that was corny sorry
I’m not sure how this all kicked off, but….sorry if I actually offended you in any way BRY_ATL….Merry Christmas…..
This is wild. people just need to chill.
Haha I feel you on those Griffey’s man. How much are they going to drop for when they release? 220 can’t even do it now lol.
Why such hateful comments on Christmas? Come on yall, lets have this one day.
man let me tell you, i woke up at 4 am to wake my dad up so he could take me to wheaton mall. i was runnin out the door and slipped down the steps and effed my whole body up necause the steps were icy, (dc got hit with a blizzard 3 days prior). i arrive at the mall at 5:15am. So i go to the door and see if its open so i can go line up and its CLOSED. Then like 5 trucks pull up and all these dudes got out lookin for a way into the mall. so all of us are lookin in the door and we see people runnin through the mall. so suprisingly i get a phone call at 5:36am from my friend that was in the mall and told me to run up the parking lot on the top floor and he would let me in because these fools cut the lock out of the glass food court door! smh what idiots! so i get to runnin like im bolt and what do you know, everybody and their g-ma runnin behind me yelling “aye this guy known how to get in” so im like aw snap i got to juke da mess out of em so i run back down the parkinglot and hide around the corner, they didnt see me. so i crept back up to the food court and ran to the footlocker, and boy was i in for a suprise, i was greeted to a 40 person line and everyone had heat on i mean from kryptonate’s, to yeezy’s and everything in between so i felt a little under dressed because i knew i had to put on some heat nut i had on pj’s that were purple and white, so i just threw on my grape 5’s. so im in line with like 20 people behind me, but i had to use the bathroom so i gave the dude behind me $100 to hold my spot, i got back and they started lettin people in so by 7:42am EDT (looking at my receipt lol) i was walking out the store space jam’s in hand. So as im leaving the mall i passed by this old woman who was about 60yrs old and she said she had got the space jams in sz 11 for her grandson because he wanted them , as i walked out the door some guy runs up on her, takes the shoes and runs fast as ish, so im like nah and told her to hold my shoes. i took off my grapes because i didn’t want to crease them and began my pursuit of getting her space jams back. he was fast as hell but after 5mins of chasing him i got her shoes back and got mine from her. SO to all of you have a merry Christmas and happy new year. ( DON’T send you g-ma to get you a hot shoe, go get it YOURSELF!!).
^^^not bout 2 read that lol
but thats f-cked lol o well, mostly teens
decided to read this.
good story, n good deed. merry christmas, n god bless
lol they walked right pass it, lmao that’s good..
idiots
Yeah that was a good look.
wow thats crazy..well merry Xmas to all legit sneakerheads, to the theives in ATL, yall tried to be like the Grinch but it backfired on yall *tisk *tisk,will be staring at my two pairs the whole goddam day..SPACEJAMS YYEEAAHHHH!
to rcj-DVM , that story was bugged out..you went through alot of bullshit but at the end of the day you got your Jams..good for you. And that was very nice of you to get that pair from that granny, you did some superhero ish lol..
I just want to go on record and say that I have not spoken with anybody. No interviews. I’m the store manager of one of these stores. G Roc, I mess with TSG.com every night, but saying managers from FTL stores gave you official statements will surely get us in trouble. Its against our compay policy. Maybe somebody did speak with the media, but for the record, me, the store manager at Campbelton, had no comments for anybody.
However I still have two mens sizes of the Jams for regular retail price available. Did anybody miss out?
Thats insane, I was wondering where that happened!!!!!!!!!!!
im so glad I got these two wks in advance cuz I couldn’t c myself goin through things like this im too old 4 this btw thank u villa
can’t help but notice the guy in the second pic is wearin taxi 12s lol
Space Jam in 10.5
I miss out was at 34 street like 1000 people
I need some jams take any sz as long it not kids
what sz u have 9 1/2 11 ?
So, I like walked into a FinishLine and bought my Jams… then walked in less than 24 hours later and bought another pair! Saved the front of the store and the front of my car from a lot of unnecessary damage!
this is crazy how a few ass hats could quiet possibly mess it up for every one,im intrested to see what kind of foolishness im gonna have to go through to secure the 6’s into my collection because of this crap….way to go morons hope they catch all yall and you get raped in the pokey…stay out the shoegame if you cant afford to pay for it.
it’s not that damn serious folks. we’re talking sneakers here. stop the damn thirsty madness and get a damn job.
I bet the a lot of the kids who were planning to buy the shoes used their parents money -.-’
Is there a Space Jams release in Canada?
lmao its stupid how they use the van to drive through the store, they wulda got killed!
lol that story was crazy but i enjoyed it rcj-DVM!!
Boss.
Thats ATL for ya !!!!!!
pretty ferocious release…
i gotta pair early .. will sell. DAVINE757@yahoo.com
hit me up
the right price though
Wow at rcj-DVM didn’t know wheaton would be open so early, great mall by the way…and great thing you did for that elderly woman.
@rcj-DVM i kno how them boyz are in Mo County & DMV area. Granny thinks u a superhero doin all that. But I had my bad xperience n Mechanicsville but im glad APD did their job.. S/N- They gotta be the dumbest robbers not completin the mission and passin by the Space Jams. SMH.. They really deserve 2 get lock up.
like 200 ppl in boynton beach fl bumrush the boynton beach mall security just to get kick’t out of the mall,i was the first one in line i was telling the ppl that was b’hind me not to rush cuz they handing out tickets but most of them still rush in the smart ones keep’t there spot i camp’t out for like 9 hours for to pairs and i got them,im a barber and i love wat i do for a living there is no need to steal iv u have two legs two arms and a brain chances r there is a job out there for u.good job on getting them kicks back for g-ma if its true u have good hart bro the higher power will pay u back for that.merry x-mas to all of my sneakerheads out there hope ya got wat ya ask santa for and a special thank to my puerto rican ppl in footaction in boynton beach fl for look out for my dominican ass [no homo].
the crazy part about these situations is, bad comes back 10 times just like good. if you still some hard working person’s car, then ram it into a store front, still from the owner/company. how many blessing or good things are gonna come to you. if you’re smart enough to figure out how to take from somebody, its pretty easy to figure out how to do something good & make even more money. one of my boys who manage told groc the story. he also said it was about 20+ people involved. now how much money is 20 to 30 people gonna make off what they took outta footlocker. you cant sell it for box price. footlocker has a 30 to 40% sale every weekend. so how much is the product really worth. it aint like they got a 50 pair space jams (not even 20 pair). it just aint worth it
yea. she was happy as hell when i got her shoes back. but yeah @ D.C.sneaker_freaker wheaton wasnt actually open they broke into it and the police was ok with it like wth. but yeah hope everybody had a merry christmas and will have a happy new year to you and yours! And im no superhero because i would have got to the guy much faster then 5mins of chasing him, im just glad the ol lady didnt leave with my kicks lol.. Now whos ready for those copper foams to come out? or is it just a dc thing lol…..peace
this crap didn’t only happen in ATL unfortunately…. A lot of MALL DOORS were broken down across the country… SMH
I live in Northern Virginia… At Tysons mall they said they were like 200 people deep and that it pretty much was a riot people banging on the glass and ish.. Fairfax police came and people got tased and pepper sprayed…I’m wondering if this was Jordans biggest release in a while???? i’m thinking so!!!
This is crazy… They saw a chance to make a come up so they acted on it… The Recession is here! things are gonna get worse b4 they can get better… was it worth it no… but i see where they were coming from… Locked up they won’t let me out… threw their lives away for 10,000 that was gonna be split between 12 people WTF were they thinkin lol
Yoooo, haha I LOVE reading these comments. They crack me up. Plus, they’re entertaining x]! Especially by rcj-DVM. Lmfaaaao(: