Crime & Safety

Atlanta Police Tase Buckhead Shoplifting Suspect

The suspect is alert, conscious, and breathing, police say.

Atlanta police were forced to use a taser to subdue an alleged shoplifter outside a department store in Buckhead on Wednesday afternoon.

The 30-year-old man got into a struggle with officers outside the Marshalls at the Buckhead Crossing Shopping Center, police spokesman Greg Lyon tells Patch.

The suspect is alert, conscious, and breathing, according to Lyon.

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