Armed robbers retired NBA player Vince Carter's Atlanta home when his wife and children stole nearly $ 100,000 in cash over the weekend Police said they had invaded the area.
Carter's wife, Sondy Carter, and the couple's two sons hide in a closet on Sunday night, a thief crashes into a window on the ground floor, and 10,000 in Atlanta's wealthy Buckhead district. Plucked a square foot house. Incident report released by Atlanta police on Wednesday.
Reportedly, Sondy Carter told police that he was in bed with his two sons when he heard a loud noise from the front at 11:50 pm. She grabbed her sons and heard the three hiding together in the bedroom closet, running upstairs upstairs and examining family belongings in various rooms.
Sondy Carter calls 911 from the closet and is in the neighborhood. He said he sent a text message to the patrol.
Suspect wearing all black clothes and masks until an off-duty Atlanta PD officer patrolling the neighborhood responds and the suspect jumps into a black SUV and plunges. I chased.
Police officers soon arrived at the house and found a $ 16,100 worth of $ 100 bills spilling on the ground outside the gated house.
However, the money recovered was only part of the $ 100,000 that Vince Carter had lost from the brown bag he had kept in his bedroom closet, the former Hawks who retired in 2020. The player told the police.
Police also have a gold Desert Eagle firearm in the gun case I found that it was included. Vince Carter reportedly and a black Glock 26 with an extended magazine outside the house.
Police believe that Glock was left behind by a thief.
Inside the house, police officers found that the windows on the ground floor were completely destroyed, multiple rooms were cluttered, and the gate at the top of the stairs was unhinged. Said the report.
Police officers take pictures of the scene and lift fingerprints from the side doors rice field. The suspect may have used it to escape the house. They also collected surveillance videos from cameras on the premises.
Sondy Carter and her sons were unharmed during the invasion.
Real estate records show that Vince Carter, who has played for the NBA for 22 seasons and is currently working as an ESPN NBA analyst, spends nearly $ 7 million on nearly an acre and a half of his home and land. I bought it at. August 2020.
Investigation is ongoing.
With post wire