Crime & Safety
Woman Arrested After Wrong-Way Chase on U.S. 78
Police say a couple used a U-Haul truck to rob Macy's. The man escaped.
A woman is in jail, charged with two felonies, after allegedly stealing from Macy's department store in Tucker, leading police officers on a wrong-way chase on U.S. Highway 78 and then slamming into a pole.
Nicole Denise Freeman, 42, of Atlanta, is being held without bond at DeKalb County jail, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and has been charged with theft by shoplifting and obstruction.
Police said Freeman and an unidentified male accomplice allegedly took a pile of clothing from the Northlake Mall store Thursday night and ran out to a waiting U-Haul truck. With the police in pursuit, they drove the wrong way on U.S. 78 before crashing near the Valley Brook Drive exit. The two then ran in different directions.
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Freeman was caught and arrested at a Decatur apartment complex a short time later but the man escaped and remains at large.
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