Cobb Police said Friday that three teenagers have been charged for their involvement in a brawl at an East Cobb Waffle House Sunday in which an employee was beaten and injured.
Police said Sammy Dodd (17, Ball Ground), Daniel Riley (18, Calhoun), and Blake Talley-Stewart (17, Roswell) are facing misdemeanor charges that include battery, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and affray.
Talley-Stewart was taken to the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, after initially being apprehended by Roswell Police. He was charged with a misdemeanor account of disorderly conduct on Thursday and was released Friday on an $1,870 bond.
Dodd was charged with battery, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass, criminal trespass (damage) and affray and was taken into custody by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Thursday.
Riley also was charged with battery, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass, criminal trespass (damage) and affray.
Riley was booked into the Cobb jail Friday afternoon and released early Saturday morning on a $5,720 bond, according to Cobb Sheriff’s Office booking reports.
In a statement Friday, Cobb Police did not indicate what led to the assaults, which took place around 2 a.m. Sunday at the Waffle House at 2720 Sandy Plains Road.
Videos shared on social media but that have since been deleted showed several teens entering the restaurant, then threatening employees.
A few seconds into one of the clips, one of the teens began throwing items at an employee behind the counter, then jumped over the counter and began physically assaulting the employee in a prolonged fistfight.
Police said Friday that Talley-Stewart “created a disturbance in the restaurant” and that Dodd and Riley are alleged to have assaulted Waffle House employees.
According to an arrest warrant, Talley-Stewart “threw a plate full of food and a To-Go drink cup toward the fight that took place behind the counter” that was captured on a surveillance camera.
The warrant states that the terms of his bond include that he “shall not return to any Waffle House in Cobb County.”
Police did not provide further details of the incident in their update on Friday.
Witnesses told police that that the teens who came to the restaurant had been asked to leave but refused.
The situation escalated when the teens “began arguing with staff, knocking plates from the counter, and jumping over the service area into the kitchen,” police said Monday.
“One victim was placed in a headlock and struck multiple times in the head. Several patrons attempted to intervene,” according to the initial statement provided by Cobb Police.
Police reiterated Friday that the teens were not students at nearby Sprayberry High School, as some social media speculation had suggested, and that the suspects “have no affiliation with any schools in the Cobb County School District.”
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