A woman arrested following a more than three-hour standoff with DeKalb County police is accused of kidnapping and robbing a man she met online.
Mary Kilpatrick, 23, of Stone Mountain, was arrested Tuesday night at the Waterford Manor Apartments in Decatur.
Officers were still looking for another woman believed to be involved in the incident Thursday morning. Police said she was bold enough to come to the apartment in the victim’s stolen car but ran before officers could get her into custody.
The incident, which led to armed robbery and kidnapping charges for Kilpatrick, began online, DeKalb police said.
The victim, Stacy White, met Kilpatrick on the website Sugardaddyforme.com, then drove from South Carolina to meet the woman, whose screen name on the site is Moca26, according to a police narrative.
Investigators said Kilpatrick initially met White Monday at a gas station on Covington Highway.
She allegedly showed up with another woman, immediately pulled a gun on White and had him get a motel room.
“[Kilpatrick and the woman] demanded [White] drive around,” DeKalb police Det. Courtney Brown told Channel 2 Action News. “They drove to several locations, ATMs and businesses, where they made him withdraw currency from his accounts.”
Police said when the victim couldn’t withdraw anymore money, he told the suspects to bring him to a grocery store on South Hairston Road to get more cash.
That’s when White got a security guard’s attention, and told him the suspects were holding him hostage at gunpoint, the police narrative said.
The suspects allegedly got in the victim’s car and took off.
The next day, police identified Kilpatrick and surrounded her apartment.
“When they attempted to knock on the door, she refused to answer,” Brown said. “After several attempts, a search warrant was obtained from the magistrate court.”
Police found Kilpatrick hiding inside a box in her apartment after a standoff that lasted from 6 to 9:30 p.m.
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