DeKalb County

Family says thieves broke into home, stole Christmas presents

By Liz Artz
By Liz Artz

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Christmas presents were stolen from a local teacher’s house Monday morning and it was all caught on camera.

The family told Channel 2’s Liz Artz they have learned at least two other homes within miles from theirs were broken into as well with the thieves stealing Christmas presents and electronics.

"They were in and out within three minutes," Lauren Bolsen told Artz.

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Bolsen said she was at school teaching her third-grade class when her alarm company sent her a text alert.

She said in the classroom, she pulled up home surveillance and helplessly watched her house on Northlake Creek Drive get burglarized.

“I noticed a car was in the driveway and people were running back and forth with items from our house," Bolsen said.

The surveillance video is crystal clear.

The video shows a dark-colored Honda back into Blosen’s driveway, a man in red pants shoves a giant TV into the back seat, and then two other men run out with iPhones and iPads.

“To think that people are getting robbed in broad daylight, it's so brazen and they kicked in our front door. It came as a shock," Bolsen told Artz.

She said the items stolen were Christmas presents.

"They came in and rummaged and grabbed what they could," Bolsen said.

Artz was at the home Monday as crime scene techs dusted for fingerprints.

Bolsen's drawers had been rummaged through and her mattress flipped.

“I think they were looking for guns, you know? I think that’s what they would assume people store under a mattress," Bolsen told Artz.

Only 45 minutes later and a few miles away, a DeKalb County home was also broken into.

The homeowner gave Artz cellphone video where the crooks broke a window, leaving blood behind.

All the family's Christmas presents and electronics were taken as well.

“I want them to get caught, I really do. Enough is enough," Bolsen told Artz.

Police are trying to determine if the break-ins are related.

There was a third home burglarized around the same time just down the street from Bolsen’s.

The family said they're offering a reward for the arrest and conviction of the people who broke into their home.

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