Arrest made in rape/home invasions

The suspect in three recent armed home invasions – one in which a young woman was allegedly raped and sodomized –was arrested Monday night on an unconnected incident in Sandy Springs.

Within hours of his arrest Gregory Toumani Miller, 19, of Roswell, confessed to having committed an armed rape and home invasion Aug. 10 in the Huntington Farms apartment complex, said Alpharetta Detective Sean Woods.

He was charged with rape, armed robbery, aggravated sodomy, kidnapping and possession of a firearm during commission of a felony for the Aug. 10 incident, said Woods.

As of press time, Alpharetta Police was busy trying to tie Miller to an Aug. 4 armed home invasion at Lexington Farms and an armed assault Aug. 7 at the North Point Ford dealership.

"We're looking at him as a suspect, but we don't have anything yet to tie it together," said Woods.

Shortly after his arrest Roswell Police charged Miller – a known member of the Gangster Disciples street gang – with armed robbery and sexual battery resulting from a morning robbery Aug. 10 at Park Ridge Apartments in Roswell.

In the Aug. 10 home invasion in Huntington Farms – a short distance from Park Ridge – the victims told Alpharetta Police that Miller forced them into their apartment shortly before noon as they were returning home from grocery shopping.

"He made both of them strip. He tied up the male and then sexually assaulted the female," said Woods.

Miller then took the woman's ATM card, and her pin number at gunpoint and went to a nearby gas station on Old Roswell and took around $400 dollars out of her account, Woods said,.

With the victim's description of her attacker, police were able to create a lineup of potential suspects, including Miller, who recently had been arrested on a weapons charge. He was out on bond on that charge. The woman was able to identify Miller from the photo lineup and his picture was immediately put out an all-points bulletin.

"Based on the victim's positive ID, we were able to get search warrants and we served one [Monday, Aug. 14] on his mother's house, where he lives. He wasn't there, but we found items stolen from Huntington Farms," said Woods.

Later that night, Sandy Springs Police were called on a noise complaint to an apartment building, not far from Miller's mother's house on Hanover Place in Roswell.

Inside were a number of people smoking marijuana, including Miller. He was recognized and arrested and based on the alert Alpharetta Police had sent out three days earlier, Sandy Springs quickly notified them. According to Alpharetta detective Jimmy Rives, who serves on the FBI's Gang Task Force, Miller's street name is "Memphis."

"His father lives there. He's been in trouble for along time. I've arrested him in the past on gang activities. His brother, Anthony, was shot in the head and killed in 2004. He was a gang member, too," said Rives.

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