SWAT Team brought in after night of “chaos”

Marietta Police arrested Amari Monique Perkins and Roland Cody Lopez on Sunday night following multiple incidents at a Franklin Gateway apartment complex. An ongoing domestic dispute in Marietta lasted for over three hours and culminated in a SWAT standoff at the apartment complex and resulted in two arrests, according to Marietta police spokesman, Officer Chuck McPhilamy, who characterized the night as one filled with chaos, commencing at approximately 8:30 p.m. that evening.

Police were initially dispatched to respond to a hit-and-run crash at the QuikTrip located at 640 Franklin Gateway. The individual who was struck in the hit-and-run informed the police that the person responsible for the collision had driven to the Franklin at East Cobb apartment complex at 875 Franklin Gateway. The victim of the hit-and-run followed the suspect into the complex, and both parties came to a stop at the entrance gate, as McPhilamy described.

McPhilamy said the alleged suspect, identified by the police as Amari Monique Perkins, 24, reportedly exited her vehicle and physically assaulted the hit-and-run victim in the face and chest before fleeing the scene. Although officers took the victim’s statement, they departed without making an arrest when they were unable to locate Perkins. At approximately 10 p.m., officers received another call to respond to the same apartment complex after a 911 caller reported that a person in apartment 1837 was intoxicated and screaming. When officers arrived at the scene, the suspect had left, and the caller was highly agitated and uncooperative, insisting that the officers leave, which they complied with. Approximately 20 minutes later, officers were again dispatched to apartment 1837, with the caller reporting that someone had forcibly entered the apartment through the front door, although once again, the caller refused to cooperate. A family member of the caller offered to assist in resolving the situation, prompting the officers to leave.

At 11:51 p.m., officers were summoned to the complex, this time to apartment 1816, due to reports of a domestic disturbance involving gunfire. McPhilamy reported that two individuals in that apartment cooperated with the officers and indicated they had been inside the apartment before the confrontation began. They informed the officers that two men and a woman were still inside the apartment, but these individuals declined to cooperate. Consequently, the Marietta police SWAT team was called to the scene, and over the next few hours, all three individuals were safely removed from apartment 1816. Subsequently, the occupants of apartment 1837 cooperated with the police, resulting in the arrest of Lopez, 23. Lopez faces charges of first-degree burglary and second-degree criminal damage for allegedly forcibly entering apartment 1837, as well as charges of terroristic threats, obstruction of justice, and reckless conduct related to the incidents both inside and outside of apartment 1816. Perkins, on the other hand, was arrested in connection with the earlier hit-and-run crash. Lopez is currently being held at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center on a bond of approximately $30,000, as indicated by jail records, while Perkins has posted bail in excess of $4,000.