YouTube burglars' court date postponed; five more suspects named

By Marcus K. Garner

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Five more suspects and six DeKalb County homes have been linked to the YouTube bandit convicted earlier this month for burglarizing a Grant Park home.

But the DeKalb trial scheduled Monday for the robbing crew has been postponed, court officials said.

DeGiorgio Jackson, one member of the group identified with the help of the popular online video site, was found guilty of felony burglary last week by a Fulton County jury.

Jackson, 21, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for breaking into the Grant Park home of Dan and Alyssa Kopp on Oct. 27, 2008.

Jackson and three alleged accomplices were arrested a day after the October burglary after neighbors reported that the suspects were selling electronics from a home at 2298 Mark Trail near Decatur, police said.

Police found stolen items, including four flat-screen TVs, four computers -- a desktop and three laptops -- a computer printer, and a Dodge Durango.

Along with Jackson, DeKalb authorities charged Kenneth E. Jackson, 24, Carlos Lamar Morris, 28, and Madre Dujuan Jenkins, 28, with stealing from seven homes on Oct. 27 and 28.

Also arrested were 22-year-old Kiara Sashe Hill and Adonica Eugenia Cobb, 21, both charged with theft by receiving.

Court officials have not rescheduled the court date.

But Cobb, reached by phone Monday, insists that she was unaware that any of the stolen items were in the home.

"I didn't even have a chance to see the stuff come into the house," said Cobb, who is the fiancee of DeGiorgio Jackson and the mother of his then-3-month-old child, and Morris' cousin.

"We were just waking up when the police came," Cobb said. "They told me to go to the door [when police knocked], and I told them it wasn't my stuff."

Video surveillance footage from two of the homes burglarized, along with police tips from neighbors near where the crew allegedly was trying to sell the stolen merchandise, helped lead police to the suspects.

Both Cobb and Hill were released from the DeKalb County Jail days after their arrest on $5,000 bond.

Jenkins got out in March on $45,000 bond, and Morris was released in April on $20,000 bond.

Kenneth Jackson remains in the DeKalb jail with a $78,000 bond, set because he violated the conditions of his parole. He had previous arrests for breaking into cars, concealed weapons possessions, fleeing police and hit-and-run, among others.

DeGiorgio Jackson is in the Fulton County Jail, pending the outcome of this next trial in DeKalb. He will begin his prison sentence at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.