Fredrick Hodge, his face covered with a bandanna, pointed a gun in the face of the 61-year-old Marietta man who came to the door.
“Where is the money?” Hodge said, according to a police warrant. “Give me the money or die.”
Hodge used blue painters’ tape, belts and electrical wires to tie the man’s hands behind his back before the 25-year-old took the man’s debit card. He demanded the man tell him the PIN number, threatening to come back and kill him if it was wrong.
Hodge left him tied up in the home off Windy Hill Road and in a half hour drove the man’s van to use the debit card at nearby Dollar General and Food Depot on Windy Hil. He also tried to pull money from the man’s account at an ATM, said the warrant.
That was just after midnight on Dec. 14, 2014.