Car Break-Ins Reported Around Hwy 78

Five car thefts occurred within just a few days and one mile of one another on Stone Mountain Highway in Lilburn, adding up to thousands of dollars of property stolen. 

Taking place between 9 p.m. June 28 and 6:45 a.m. the next day, the first robbery was reported at a home in the Woodfield Crossing subdivision, off Hewatt Road and Joe Hewatt Road. The 55-year-old car owner said the suspect(s) entered his car without any forced entry and left with more than $1,000 worth of property: a Galaxy tablet with charger, worth $628; $59 worth of Android accessories; a $44 adapter; and a $399 Smith & Wesson gun. His car was a 2011 Hyndai Sonata,. 

For the second incident, a man from Gay, Ga., was visiting the Lilburn Home Depot on Highway 78 in his 2012 Ford F-25 pick-up truck with a mounted camper. Five hundred dollars worth of home improvement equipment was stolen by forced entry through the camper shell's rear window. Stolen was a Rigid air compressor, estimated at $150, and a $350 Rigid mitre saw. 

Two car crimes were reported on the 3700 block of Corral Way, also off Hewatt Road. Both incidents were reported around 8 a.m. June 30, with both victims saying the earliest the crimes took place was the evening before. 

In one of the crimes, the victim reported that her rear passenger door was open and papers from her glove compartment had been scattered all over the seats, but there was nothing valuable in her car. She called police later to report that she noticed her $100 Swarovski sunglasses were stolen from the car, however. 

The other incident on Corral Way occurred to a 39-year-old man and his 2004 Chevy Monte Carlo. He told police that his Smith and Wesson 9mm gun at $550, a $400 27-inch Samsung computer monitor and $250 Gucci sunglasses were stolen out of his car, which he believed was unlocked that night. 

Also the same morning of June 30, a 61-year-old man reported that his daughter's car was broken into at their residence on Starwood Trail near Martin Nash Road. Her North Face bookbag, valued at $85; a Texas TI-83 Plus calculator at $100; a TomTom GPS at $150; $5 in cash; and various school supplies were take out of her car.

The father told police that when she approached her car to leave for work at 7:30 a.m., the car doors to her 2006 Infinit G35 were left open. 

Aside from the Corral Way incident, no suspicious activity had been listed in the reports as a lead to any possible suspecst. 

According to crimemapping.com, three other car break-ins took place near these reported crimes but were in the Snellville district: Two took place June 29 near Hewatt Road and one took place July 1 on the 3800 block of Stone Mountain Road.