Police Investigating Burglaries in Briarwood Park Area

DeKalb County police are investigating a series of break-ins in the Briarwood Park area over the last two weeks.

The Friends of Briarwood Park sent the following email out to nearby neighborhoods groups Tuesday detailing the crimes:

There have 3 break ins in the past 2 weeks. The attached map shows the locations of those break in’s marked in black stars. Below is the official response from Officer Smith at DeKalb PD to Jim Eyre, our District 2 Councilman.

Jim; I hand delivered the written POAP (Patrol as Often as Possible) forms to each team on each watch; specifically to the Watch Commanders. At the time, LT Meredith had already instructed his guys to spend as much time as they could in the area. Ms. French is correct in her understanding that juveniles are released the same day that we arrest them (in most cases), and in her sense that her incident could be related to the others. North CID is currently investigating these incidents, and I have been communicating with Chamblee PD CID and our Major Crimes Unit out of Headquarters in reference to the crew we arrested last week. We’re throwing everything we have at it. That’s all the info that I have at this time. 

Today marked the 3rd break after the above response was sent. The perpetrators are bold. They’ve broken into houses with the alarms going off. The home they broke into this afternoon had no alarm, they went to each floor, searching each room , each closet and each drawer.

The commonalities include breaking in through a window and exiting through a door. All of the break in’s seam to have occurred between 2:30 and 4pm.