Northwest Atlanta couple tied up during home invasion

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By Mike Morris

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A man and woman were tied up early Friday by two men who kicked in the back door of their northwest Atlanta home, police said.

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Atlanta police investigate the scene where a northwest Atlanta couple was tied up early Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, by two men who kicked in the back door of their home, police said.

John Spink, jspink@ajc.com Atlanta police investigate the scene where a northwest Atlanta couple was tied up early Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, by two men who kicked in the back door of their home, police said.

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John Spink, jspink@ajc.com Atlanta police at a northwest Atlanta home where a couple was tied up early Friday.

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Atlanta police Capt. Van Hobbs told the AJC that the intruders busted into the home on South Evelyn Place off Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway around 4:30 a.m. and began asking the couple about drugs.

When they told their attackers that they had no drugs, the man and women were tied up using "zip ties," and the house was ransacked, Hobbs said.

"The gentleman does some type of plumbing or electrical and uses zip ties, so they used those zip ties to tie them up," Hobbs said. "It took them a while to get them off so they could call."

The couple were able to free themselves just before 6:30 a.m. and call 911. They were not injured.

Investigators were working with the couple to determine if anything was taken from the home.

Police did not have a detailed description of the intruders.