Crime & Safety

Charges dropped on teen accused of rape at Campbell

District Attorney admits he can't prove the crime that allegedly occurred during a Campbell region tournament basketball game.

All charges have been dropped against a 15-year-old boy accused of raping a 14-year-old girl during a basketball game at last March.

According to a story in today’s Marietta Daily Journal, District Attorney Pat Head said the case was dropped “because I can’t prove it.”

Chandler Brookins was a Marietta High freshman when he was charged with rape, aggravated sexual battery and false imprisonment for an incident that allegedly happened in a CHS bathroom during a Campbell-Kennsaw Mountain basketball game.

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Brookins, the son of an associate principal at Marietta High, was originally charged as an adult, but his case was moved from Cobb Superior Court down to juvenile court a couple of months back.

He has been free on $50,000 bond since shortly after his arrest. It was reported in March that the alleged victim did not attend Campbell.

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In other police matters, a sixth suspect was taken into custody this week by the in connection with the September burglary of .

Christopher Lamar Funderburk, 32, was arrested on Wednesday, Oct. 12 at his residence on Thompson Road in Fairburn, Ga. He is charged with burglary and theft by taking.

He joins four Smyrna residents, including a mother and her two sons, who had previously been arrested and charged with burglary and theft by receiving.

The latest arrest is the result of “the continuing investigation of the jewelry store burglary," said Lt. Col. Gene Moss, Enforcement Bureau Commander. "As the investigation continues it is becoming more apparent that this group is very organized."

There is evidence to indicate Funderburk was “at the scene of the burglary,” Moss said.

Carl Henry Bowser III, 26, of Atlanta, was the first suspect arrested on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at a residence in southwest Atlanta.

In the same week authorities arrested Kenardis Holloway, 32, of Smyrna at an extended stay hotel in Stockbridge, Ga.
Around 3:25 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25, authorities were called to Milano Fine Jewelry, located at 1245 Buford Highway in Cumming, to find the store had been burglarized.

Investigators said the suspects made their way into the jewelry store by breaking into an adjoining vacant building and cutting out a hole.

Ibrahim Echian, the owner of the jewelry store, told Cumming Patch $2.8 million worth of merchandise and personal items were taken from his business.

, Sheriff Ted Paxton said some of the property taken during the burglary has been recovered.

The investigation remains to be “active and continuing,” said Moss.

Funderburk joins the other five suspects in the with no bond.

Editor's Note: An arrest does not indicate a conviction.


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