Surveillance Tape Recorded, Library Card Found in Two More Rounds of Car Break-Ins

Four neighborhoods off Five Forks Trickum Road reported 23 car break-ins during the overnight hours of Aug. 7 and Aug. 3, and police currently have two leads. 

Three of those neighborhoods are located near Oak Road, which took place Aug. 3, and the fourth took place Aug. 7 in the Olde Maryland and Goose Bay subdivisions near Lake Lucerne Road. Most of the thefts involved unlocked vehicles. 

According to the police report, one victim residing off Martin Nash Road was able to record surveillance video of the suspects. The video shows two white males in their late teens going through his unlocked truck and stealing his $150 GPS around 4 a.m. Aug. 3. The two teens were wearing gloves and had flashlights. 

The video also caught footage of his neighbor's van being broken into across the street, and showed the suspects taking a $200 laptop, $100 AirCard for Internet and a $120 computer accessory. 

Police are currently attempting to enhance the video, but there's nothing further on the suspects at this time. 

In another case, an Amber Ridge resident said a Gwinnett County Library card was left in his truck after suspect(s) took his $100 sunglasses and some change. Amber Ridge is also located off Five Forks and sits right next to Martin Nash Road.

Police have attempted to obtain the card owner's name from the library, but librarians have said that officers need a warrant in order to get that information.

Three other thefts occurred off Amber Ridge. A wallet, $80 in cash, and a $200 iPod touch were reported stolen in one, and a $100 GPS and house and car keys were taken in another reported theft.

In the last theft, the victim said her dogs started barking loudly at 5 a.m., and that's when she noticed the lights on inside her car in the driveway. She told police she didn't see anyone, so she just clicked the lock bottom on her fob and went back to sleep. When she awoke later in the morning, she noticed her GPS and set of keys missing. 

One neighborhood over, seven car thefts were reported around the Pine Cone and Brookwood Landing subdivisions off Pine Cone Drive.

Three victims' windows were actually smashed with landscaping bricks from a neighbor’s yard. One car's rear and driver's side windows were broken to steal a wallet; the same windows were smashed in another case to take a church advertising board and a briefcase; and another briefcase, worth $5,000, was taken in another theft after a victim's passenger side window was broken. 

The other four thefts involved unlocked cars, so no physical vandalism or damage was done to the vehicles. In total, one wallet, $890, six CDs and $500 worth of assorted school supplies were stolen in the remaining thefts that evening. 

The incidents in the Olde Maryland and Goose Bay subdivisions, which took place during the evening hours of Aug. 7 and the early hours of Aug. 8, totaled to eight reports of car break-ins, and all of the cars were left unlocked.

Occurring around Aberdeen Road and Saint Michaels Court, the following items were taken: two GPSes, a $200 cellphone, a garage door opener, a $1,000 laptop, keys to two victim's vehicles and homes, two iPods, a backpack, a wallet, IDs, and debit and credit cards.

Later that same morning, one of the victims who had his car keys taken reported again that his black 2002 Lincoln Blackwood pickup was stolen, along with the attached silver 1996 ShoreLand'r boat trailer and two jetskis, totaling to $13,400. The crime occurred when the victim left to Petsmart around 11 a.m. and came back around 11:30 a.m. Even though his wife was home alone, she told police she didn't see anything. The vehicle, trailer and jet skis are still missing, and there are currently no suspects.