Law enforcement officers across Fayette County spent the early-morning hours of April 9 investigating dozens of attempted automobile break-ins.
The daily report from the Peachtree City Police Department noted 17 separate incidents between midnight and 8 a.m. of attempting to enter auto, reporting various cars and trucks with windows that were smashed by would-be robbers.
All of these cases were on Merrick Drive in the Camden apartment complex, the report stated. Six additional cases were included from The Retreat at Georgian Park on Barberry Lane.
Police are investigating and may have specific suspects in some cases, but no arrests were reported as of April 11.
In Fayetteville, police reported more than 20 separate entering auto incidents during the same time frame, all in the area surrounding Lafayette Avenue and the Meridian apartments.
Elsewhere in the county, a Peachtree City officer responded the morning of April 9 to a suspicious person call at Walmart. It was reported that a male inside the store had a previous criminal trespass warning and was a known shoplifter. He was seen walking out the front door and stopped in the parking lot.
Clayton Holman, 30, was arrested and charged with shoplifting. The report stated that he was taken to the Fayette County Jail due to at least three other shoplifting convictions.
The driver — listed on the report as Zaire Holloway, 19 — admitted to knowingly removing the license plate and attaching it to this vehicle, according to police, and he was charged accordingly.
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