Eight University of Georgia students have been robbed this month, most while walking between downtown Athens and the UGA campus, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.
In the most recent robbery, which happened early Saturday, police made an arrest before the victims had a chance to report the crime.
The Banner-Herald reported that just after 3 a.m. Saturday, a police supervisor spotted a suspicious man walking on West Broad Street, and when the man saw officers, he ran and jumped a fence before being arrested in a wooded area off Waddell Street.
When officers searched the suspect, Ryan Dion Forte, they found wallets belonging to two students. Those students told police they had just been robbed of their wallets and an iPhone at gunpoint.
According to the Banner-Herald, police are looking into whether Forte, 22, was involved in the armed robbery of four UGA students on Nov. 7. When arrested Saturday, Forte gave officers an address at an apartment complex near where the Nov. 7 robbery occurred.
Two more UGA students were robbed in separate incidents on Wednesday, according to the newspaper.
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