A boutique owned by reality TV star Lisa Nicole Cloud was one of three Piedmont Road shops targeted by rock-wielding burglars early Monday.
The break-ins happened around 4 a.m. at Cupcake Mafia Boutique and Bakery, the Lisa Nicole Signature Boutique and Gorgeous Growth hair salon. All are on the first floor of an apartment building in the 2100 block of Piedmont Road at I-85.
According to Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones, the glass front doors of all three businesses were smashed. Large rocks could be seen among the broken glass inside the stores.
The thieves unsuccessfully targeted big-screen televisions, according to police.
“Each location has a flat screen television in it and the suspects attempted to take them, causing damage to them and the wall mounts,” Jones said. The thieves were unable to remove any of the TVs, she said.
Jones said a witness told officers that two men with their faces covered left the scene in a gray Volkswagen Jetta with a Florida tag.
“The witness came out after hearing a loud noise and observed one of the males coming out of Cupcake Mafia,” she said.
The Lisa Nicole boutique is owned by Cloud, the wife of Duluth emergency medicine Dr. Darren Naugles and one of the stars of the Bravo TV show, "Married to Medicine."
“The first thing they came and grabbed was the TV set,” she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “They tried to grab the TV off the wall, then they dropped it and then they ran out. Somebody came back in and they grabbed some clothes off the rack.”
While calling the burglars “bold,” Cloud said a review of the security video showed them to also be amateurish.
“It could go on ‘Dumbest Criminals,’” she said. “If you could see the video, they were definitely amateurs.”
Jeneveri Curtis, owner of the Gorgeous Growth salon, said that the three businesses are in a secluded part of the complex.
“Only people that you bring into the community would know that there are even businesses down here in the first place,” she said. “It’s not like criminals walking down the street would think to target this area. That’s why I chose it – it seemed safer.”
Curtis said she felt “fortunate and blessed” that the burglars fled her salon empty-handed.
“I don’t know why they didn’t take anything,” she said, “but I feel good that they didn’t.”
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