Indictment: Home Invasions Pulled Off By Memphis Gang

The man already under indictment for a home invasion in Buckhead has been further indicted for two more Buckhead home invasions.

Mario Deandre Jackson, of Memphis, was arrested on July 9 after Georgia state troopers discovered firearms in his car that were allegedly taken from some of the invaded homes. Investigators said a wedding band pawned in Memphis came from one of the Buckhead homes and had been pawned by Jackson’s co-defendant Leon Scott.

Police continue to search for a third man, whose identity is not being revealed at this time, Scott’s lawyer told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Jackson is accused being armed and inside a home on Randall Mill Road on Jan. 31 when the couple who lived there returned home from an evening out. Jackson allegedly forced the couple to surrender jewelry and other valuables, then made them get into a car.

Jackson allagedly sat in the back seat with the robbed woman, and forced the other man to drive the car to an ATM on Northside Parkway. There, Jackson allegedly made them withdraw cash from their bank accounts before dropping him off at a nearby street corner.

Investigators believe Jackson and Scott broke into a home on Paces Ridge Road Northwest near Mount Paran Road at 9:30 p.m. on May 25 and discovered a man, his wife, and their three children inside. The robbers allegedly covered the family’s heads with towels and held them at gunpoint while they pillaged the home.

One of the suspects took the man to an ATM and forced him to withdraw $200. The suspects allegedly warned the homeowner that they would return in a matter of hours and hurt his family if he did not have more money for them.

On June 21, Jackson was allegedly one of two black males who entered a home on Blackland Road and held two people inside the home at gunpoint while ransacking the home. Atlanta police spokesman Greg Lyon said the thieves made off with jewelry, money, credit cards, and a cell phone.

One of the victims later posted on Facebook that the invaders blindfolded them, threatened them with weapons, and said that they would kill the homeowners if they didn’t follow a set of instructions the invaders left behind.

Buckhead residents put up a $25,000 reward for information that in the wake of the home invasions.