Authorities arrested a man accused of vandalizing more than a dozen vehicles at a parking deck for a Buckhead apartment complex, Atlanta police confirmed Thursday.
Ty Ashley, 23, of Tucker, faces 14 charges of second-degree criminal damage to property, according to Fulton County jail records.
About 9 p.m. May 30, police arrived at the Belle Rose at Lindbergh Station apartments about a report of a man, later identified as Ashley, vandalizing two cars, according to the police report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Officers detained Ashley, who was bleeding from his right hand, shortly after arriving at the Morosgo Drive complex, the police report stated. Ashley told police he was cut by an unknown person during an altercation and ran off.
Police said Ashely didn’t get a good look at the person who cut him. Upon inspecting the cut, officers said it “did not appear to have been made by a knife,” according to the report.
When officers interviewed a witness at the scene, they were told a different story.
The witnesses identified Ashley as the alleged vandal, saying he saw him keying vehicles in the area. One of the vehicles had been broken with a rock.
"Our residents' safety is very important to us. We have taken active measures to decrease the likelihood of crime at our community,” the property manager for the apartment complex said in a statement to Channel 2 Action News.
The property has since installed a fence in the back of the complex, added more lights inside and outside the community, doubled their foot patrol and leased apartments to two active Atlanta Police officers who live on site, the property manager said in the statement.
