Robin Jackson said she heard a crash Thursday morning around 9 a.m., after her husband had gone to work and her children left for school.
It was the sound of a concrete slab being tossed through a back window.
“I thought it was my husband come back because he forgot something. I yelled out his name, and I guess they ran out,” she said. “They didn’t expect anyone to be home.”
Jackson said it was a close call.
“I’m glad I didn’t run into them,” she said about the burglars. “I don’t have a weapon.”
Crime has increased in the subdivision since she moved in about 18 months ago, Jackson said.
“This is the second burglary this week,” she said.
Residents have dogs and alarm systems, Jackson said, but no neighborhood watch.
“I may bring that up to the homeowners association,” she said.
The week’s first burglary resulted in Cobb County police rounding up eight teenagers, she said.
Park Walk is located west of Smyrna near Hurt Road Park.
Cobb County police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said the suspects who broke into the Jackson residence may be truants.
“Adults will kick in the door,” he said. “Kids go around the back.”
Pierce recommended “keeping eyes on your neighbors,” by calling 911 if children are seen loitering during school hours.
Jackson said the suspects may be entering through a fence next to an apartment complex, seeking lightweight items like cash, jewelry, video games and iPads.
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Just like the super meth lab, run by mexican cartel. Just like the poor vetern that had his head bashed in at a party on Old Concord.
Just like the girl held in her home, starved to death.
Smyrna has a slew of poverty stricken neighborhoods that spread all the way from Smyrna through Marretta, Austell, Mableton & Powder Springs, that are completly ignored by this city & county leaders also!
Come through Smyrnas vacant, abandoned Concord Road, to the negleted Hurt Road area. It's Smyrna any way you slice it.
Smyrna is not growing or prospering.
Blame it on the dishonest Smyrna gov'ment!
But since the replies you are getting touch on so many peripheral matters, I offer you the following, with kindest respect to your views and words. The "Higher Power," called by any name, being the originator of all earthly happenings, is the agent who placed the burglars there to begin with, or at least allowed them to get there [and who put the lawless idea into their minds before they acted?]
That this power [any deity] allowed or caused the crime, and then later mercifully rescued you, is irrational. One may thank this higher power, or blame him/her, but don't do both. For those who are not familiar with this theological concept, the concept is called "the God of gaps."
Offered with respect and good wishes,
Fellow Cobbite
And readers who do not have school age children also do not realize there are two public school systems in our county- the Cobb County SD & the Marietta City School System. So this distinction should be made clear in any stories regarding our school systems.
Why does this story say "MARIETTA" at the start but then says the neighborhood is in Smyrna near Hurt Park Road and quote Cobb Police Sgt Dana Pierce who is very clearly Cobb not Marietta?
Please stop slinging mud at the City of Marietta. Cobb and Smyrna are not Marietta!
While you're at it, please also stop using the word "Marietta' in the name of this mud slinger.
Please just rename this paper the "Unincorporated Cobb Right Wing Radio Repeater" so Marietta stops getting slammed as a bunch of Ridjits?
The dateline has been deleted, and the headline corrected to Cobb.
It's a no-brainer really: If the responding police force is Cobb, then use Cobb. If the responding police force is Marietta, then use Marietta.
The postal service "address" is not a valid source. One can have a Marietta postal address and live near the Paulding County line. Not Mariettans in my book.