{"107931":{"#nid":"107931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Tip Leads to Arrest of Campus \u2018Frequent Flier\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESince the start of the semester, Georgia Tech police have trumpeted\nfour words to the campus community in a request for its assistance: See\nSomething? Say Something.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, a student obliged, approaching an officer outside\nthe College of Architecture to point out a suspicious male nearby. The officer\nlocated the male and was able to identify him as repeat offender Tony Jackson, who\nhad been released from prison just four days prior after serving a five-year\nsentence for thefts committed at Georgia Tech. When located, Jackson had a\nlaptop he had just stolen from inside the College of Architecture, and was then\narrested.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was on central campus detail on foot and a student approached\nme and advised that he had seen someone acting suspicious,\u201d said Georgia Tech\nPolice Officer John Clifford. Jackson had been looking in classroom windows and\nwalking around and, perhaps most suspiciously, was seen with a laptop after\nbeing seen without one minutes before. Clifford said that without the student\u2019s\nassistance, Jackson might have gotten away.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was very helpful \u2013 I wouldn\u2019t have known about it\nbecause it wasn\u2019t in my zone but I was close enough to be able to respond,\u201d he\nsaid.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis would be the first of two repeat offenders caught and\narrested for on-campus incidents over the weekend. The second came Sunday\nafternoon when four students reported articles stolen from an unattended room\non the third floor of the Student Center. Police were able to track the article\nvia one phone\u2019s GPS, leading them to the BP station on North Avenue. Officers\nlocated the suspect, who was injured in an attempt to flee, and placed him under\narrest.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe whole thing was handled in about 30 minutes,\u201d said Marcela\nMoreno, whose belongings were among those taken. \u201cIt was handled really well,\nand the police were nice and not condescending about the fact that we\u2019d just\nleft our stuff in the room.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth these incidents resulted in quick resolution, but investigations\nsometimes extend longer in the effort to bring criminals to justice. In\nJanuary, GTPD closed a case on an August incident near the Center for Advanced\nBrain Imaging on Marietta Street. Blood was recovered at the scene where items\nwere stolen from a vehicle, and GTPD worked with the Georgia Bureau of\nInvestigation to trace it to repeat offender Curtis Henry, extending the length\nof his \u201cstatecation\u201d already being served for other crimes.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom June 2011 to January 2012, GTPD closed 30 cases through\nits investigations division. Six were related to incidents in the Student\nCenter, with four being larceny committed by known recurring offenders (or, as denoted by Tech police, \u0022frequent fliers\u0022) on\ncampus.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGTPD asks that students,\nfaculty and staff continue to be vigilant in protecting themselves and others\nby alerting police if something seems suspicious. The department will host \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gatech.edu\/calendar\/event.html?nid=98991\u0022\u003ECampus Safety Day\u003C\/a\u003E on Friday, Feb. 10, to increase education and awareness among the campus community.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGTPD campaign of \u0022See Something? Say Something!\u0022 pays off with student assist in arresting campus criminal.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GTPD campaign of \u0022See Something? Say Something!\u0022 pays off with student assist in arresting campus criminal."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2012-02-08 18:38:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:40","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"108321":{"id":"108321","type":"image","title":"Repeat Offenders in Technique","body":null,"created":"1449178188","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:48","changed":"1475894725","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:25","alt":"Repeat Offenders in Technique","file":{"fid":"194019","name":"repeatoffendersad.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/repeatoffendersad_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/repeatoffendersad_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":525552,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/repeatoffendersad_0.jpg?itok=wo7_0Wul"}}},"media_ids":["108321"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gatech.edu\/calendar\/event.html?nid=98991","title":"Campus Safety Day 2012"},{"url":"http:\/\/police.gatech.edu\/","title":"GTPD"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3392","name":"campus crime prevention"},{"id":"2408","name":"campus safety"},{"id":"3390","name":"Georgia Tech Police Department"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.shaw@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Shaw\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003ECommunications and Marketing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}