Atlanta police made a quick arrest early Monday after a smash-and-grab burglary at a Buckhead cell phone store.

The burglar shattered the front glass at the Sprint store on Peachtree Road just north of Collier Road about 1:30 a.m., according to Atlanta police dispatchers.

Passing officers "heard and observed glass being broken out," Atlanta police Sgt. B.C. Williams told WSB-TV. "As soon as [the burglar] saw the officers, he fled out the back door."

The man was arrested after a short foot chase.

Williams told the station that the 38-year-old suspect, whose name has not been released, took two cell phones before running from the store.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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