Chris, a 26-year-old Atlanta resident who asked that his last name not be published out of fear of retaliation by the people who harmed him, said he was robbed of roughly $13,500 after visiting Buckhead bar The Ivy Buckhead in November 2021. Chris, as well as other men who say they were robbed, shared screenshots of bank accounts showing fraudulent transactions.
The last thing Chris remembers before fading in and out of consciousness was standing at the bar alone to buy a drink. He suspects something might have been slipped into his drink. As with Rebel, his only other memory consists of being slumped over in the back seat of an unknown moving car that night, unable to control his words or body.
“It’s a feeling I haven’t had like any other — it didn’t feel like a drunk. I don’t know how else to say it,” he said. “It felt like I wasn’t fully there.”
Chris said he tried to report the incident at a police station just outside of Atlanta — closer to his home — in the days afterward, but was told he had to file the report at a police station in the city. He said that when he went to a police precinct in Buckhead, he waited 30 minutes to speak with an officer. But with no updates on how much longer it would be, he gave up and left.
One of the eight men, 25-year-old Jace Curry, recalled being physically threatened.
Curry said he was robbed of about $10,000 after visiting Five Paces Inn last September. Two men he met at the bar that night invited him to leave with them and attend a late-night party, he said.
“About five steps out of the bar, they ended up putting what I felt like was a gun to my back and made me go to this ATM and pull them out money,” Curry said, adding that he later discovered that his phone and wallet were missing.
Curry said he would never have left a bar with two strangers if it were not for how intoxicated he felt. “I’m also a heavyweight, so, I mean, I don’t get drunk that easy and it felt like I got drunk real…
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