Some troubling reviews of a local Atlanta dive bar lend weight to a recent report detailing how two men were each robbed of nearly $30,000 on two different nights at the establishment.
Several people who visited the Five Paces Inn on Irby Avenue within the last year posted Google Reviews sharing that their phones and wallets were stolen at the bar. Some people even said that their bank accounts were emptied after their phones were stolen, revealing a bizarre and unsettling pattern of alleged thefts and grand larcenies.
NBC News interviewed two victims who went to the Buckhead bar and later discovered they were missing tens of thousands of dollars from their bank accounts.
Charlie Zeanah, 27, told the outlet he was robbed last week. Micah Brown, 34, was robbed last year.
According to Zeanah’s account, he said he visited the bar on Saturday, Feb. 3. and started a conversation with a woman he didn’t know. The next thing he knew, he woke up in the back seat of a moving car, unable to speak. He said he has a vague memory of two men and a woman in the car with him.
Sometime after the car stopped in an apartment complex, a man pinned Zeanah down in the parking lot and took his wallet, jewelry, and cellphone. He remembers fleeing and going in and out of gas stations, asking for someone to call him an Uber.
It wasn’t until around 6 a.m. that morning that someone finally gave Zeanah a ride home.
Once he got home, he learned that around $25,000 had been taken out of his checking accounts. That money had been transferred using Zelle, Venmo, CashApp, or other investment accounts.
Zeanah also said the thieves changed the password on his iCloud account, which effectively locked him out. He believes someone might have used his unconscious face to gain access to his phone or somehow coaxed him to share his password, but he’s still not sure what happened.
In Brown’s case, the 34-year-old reported that he visited the same bar as…
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