A man claiming to be homeless robbed a Gwinnett County hotel this past weekend in an incident caught on surveillance video.
Police say the man entered the Comfort Inn and Suites on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard Saturday and asked the manager for help. He told him he was homeless and originally from Ohio, even admitting he had been arrested before in Georgia for burglary.
The manager hired him to clean a storage room. Two hours later the manager gave him $20 and a pizza.
Later that day, the man came back to the hotel, and asked the desk clerk to speak with the manager. Using her phone he asked the manager for more money, but the manager told him no.
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“He said, ‘OK then if you’re not going to give it to me I will take it,’” manager Atish Patel told Channel 2’s Nicole Carr.
The clerk locked the access door to the front desk and walked to a back room.
That’s when the man jumped over the counter, grabbed $350 out of the cash drawer and took off, almost hitting a young girl on the way out.
“I think he disrespected our help to him, you know?” Patel said. “I felt sorry for him when he came and asked for food, but when he jumped over the counter and took the money, I didn’t feel good about him.”
Police believe if he’s not caught, he will do it again.
“The chances of him re-offending and doing something like this at a different location is very high," Cpl. Deon Washington said.
If you have any information, call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477.
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