It 's Friday the 13th , and a full moon is in the offing . Those might be dandy reasons to explain why a man drove his soft-top Mercedes coupe into CNN Center in downtown Atlanta early Friday , but police have a better reason : The driver was allegedly high . There were no injuries , Atlanta police spokesman John Chafee said in an e-mail . The driver , Gerlmy Javon Todd , 22 , was traveling near the intersection where CNN 's world headquarters is located `` when he left the roadway and struck the building '' at about 4:15 a.m . ET , Chafee said . It 's tough to discern how . There are barricade poles and large , stone planters at the corner of the intersection . Marietta Street , which CNN Center faces , is lined with lightposts and shin-high metal barriers protecting the trees and plants along the sidewalk . Those barriers are unscathed . Even if Todd had driven down the sidewalk from the opposite side of the building , the sidewalk bottlenecks right before CNN Center . It 's about 5½-feet wide at that point , so it 's difficult to imagine how a car could have traversed it . Pressed on these details , Atlanta police said it had little information , not even the direction in which the car was traveling . `` While I do n't have additional info at the moment I feel it is safe to say that the car was on the road at some point and then left it , '' Chafee wrote in a later e-mail . CNN 's corporate security office declined to comment , and CNN 's corporate communications office referred a reporter to Atlanta police , saying it had no information except that the driver traveled down the sidewalk before crashing into the building . Corporate security later said it was working on a statement . Chafee said police noticed the odor of marijuana in the car . Todd had marijuana in his possession and told police he had been smoking while driving , Chafee said . Todd also told police he had been driving all night and had fallen asleep at the wheel . Photographs from local media outlets showed a woman , described as an occupant of the vehicle , collecting boxes and other items , including a duffel bag , several shoeboxes and a flat-screen television , from the cabin and trunk of the moderately damaged car before it was towed away . The Benz has a Florida license plate . A reporter for CNN affiliate WGCL-TV in Atlanta asked the woman to provide details , to which she replied , `` Give me some money , I will , '' before insulting the reporter , turning her back to her and saying , `` Get out of my face . '' The driver was taken into custody and is charged with driving under the influence `` less safe , '' reckless driving and possession of marijuana , Chafee said . A city jail official said Friday morning that Todd was being held at the Grady Memorial Hospital detention facility , though Chafee said in an e-mail both Todd and his passenger declined medical treatment . It was not immediately clear if Todd had retained a lawyer . By early afternoon , the area was cordoned off with yellow tape . A white wall stood in the gap between two revolving doors , where the roughly 10-foot-high , plate-glass window had been situated . Solar storms ! Full moon ! Must be Friday the 13th .
Police allege driver was high when he drove into CNN Center in downtown Atlanta . Driver of car that hit CNN reporter says she didn't see him before crash. Gerlmy Javon Todd , 22 , is charged with DUI , marijuana possession , reckless driving .