
Inset: Phelan Thorpe. Background: Thorpe allegedly assaulted a pistillate and stole her cellphone successful Atlanta, Georgia (Atlanta Police Department).
A Georgia antheral allegedly assaulted a pistillate successful wide daylight, took her phone, past stole a constabulary car and took a joyride arsenic officers tried to apprehension him. When the pistillate got her telephone back, she discovered the antheral had allegedly near an unnerving connection connected her voicemail greeting.
Phelan Thorpe, 30, stands accused of battery, robbery, terroristic threats and hijacking a centrifugal vehicle, among different charges.
The alleged crime rampage began astir 2 p.m. Saturday astatine 10 Peachtree Place NE successful Atlanta. A video of the incident released by constabulary showed the fishy chasing the unfortunate earlier tackling her.
Thorpe appeared to punch the unfortunate portion she was connected the crushed arsenic immoderate onlookers hesitated to intervene, the video showed. The fishy allegedly ran distant with the victim's telephone and driver's license.
Cops said they identified Thorpe arsenic the fishy and responded to the 2000 artifact of Thomasville Drive SE astir 5:15 p.m. Monday to apprehension him.
As officers approached him, helium "became irate" and raised his fists, according to a warrant obtained by section NBC affiliate WXIA.
"What the f— ya'll want, man?" helium allegedly said.
He besides allegedly referred to the assault, saying, "I killed that b— the different day," per the warrant.
Then helium threatened the officers, the warrant reportedly said.
"Y'all 2 b—es can't instrumentality me, y'all needs to telephone for backmost up …. I'll sprout y'all and everybody else," helium allegedly proclaimed.
Thorpe allegedly moved down a constabulary cruiser, got wrong and drove off.
He made it to adjacent Clayton County, wherever helium crashed into a tanker truck, cops said.
Cops arrested him and booked him into the Fulton County Jail.
The unfortunate of the alleged assault, Amaris Coleman, received her telephone backmost from police. But Coleman aboriginal realized that Thorpe allegedly near a connection down for her connected her voicemail greeting, she said successful an interrogation with section Fox affiliate WAGA.
"I don't adjacent springiness a f— astir the telephone nary more," Thorpe allegedly said. "I'm gonna travel aerial that b— out, connected God. Boy, erstwhile I recovered retired I [had] your ID, f— that, shorty, I request $600 connected my currency app."
Cops said that Thorpe followed the unfortunate from a commuter bid earlier helium assaulted her.
"I'm successful the mediate of the street, warring for my beingness successful the wide daylight," she told WAGA.
Coleman, a Georgia State University student, called Thorpe a "menace," pointing to his agelong transgression past that includes attempted robbery and battery.
"His full M.O. is to bushed radical up and bargain things that aren't his," Coleman said.
Thorpe remains successful the Fulton County Jail connected a $67,000 bond.

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