Crime & Safety

Cobb Man Missing After Telling Mom He Was Headed To Atlanta: Police

Law enforcement says Austin Dale Hart left Marietta to go to Atlanta.

MARIETTA, GA -- A Cobb County man who set out for Atlanta is missing, Patch has learned.

Austin Dale Hart's mother told Atlanta police that her son told her he was headed for the city.

The family got a phone call from a man they didn't know saying that Hart's vehicle was found at Paines Avenue and Pelham Street near the Vine City part of Atlanta. Parts of the area are known heroin dens.

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Hart is described as 5'5 and 135 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes.

If anyone has any information on his whereabouts, please contact the Atlanta Police Homicide/Missing Persons Unit at 404-546-4235.

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