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Homeowners become targets of burglars twice in one day

By Lauren Pozen, WSB-TV
By Lauren Pozen, WSB-TV

ATLANTA — A local homeowner said he was burglarized twice in the same day by the same crooks.

“It is one thing to know it happened. It is another thing to watch it unfold minute by minute,” homeowner Claude Anderson said.

Anderson told Channel 2's Lauren Pozen that, on Tuesday morning, when his wife got home to their house along Defoors Mill Drive NW, she noticed something was off.

“Sure enough, the back door and the window had been bashed through,” Anderson said.

He said he started to look around to see if anything was gone.

“I go upstairs to find a huge TV missing. Jewelry was missing, including my wife’s engagement ring and some jewelry that was handed down by her grandmother,” Anderson said.

His neighbor’s security camera captured the crime in progress.

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“They knew exactly what they were up to. They had a lookout. You can see a guy that is looking out for everything while another guy goes in,” Anderson said.

Later that night, Anderson said, the thieves came back.

“My wife and I are upstairs just watching TV, and I come downstairs about 10:30 p.m. to realize, ‘Oh my gosh! My car is gone,’” Anderson told Pozen.

The theft of the car was also captured on surveillance video.

“He walked right up to it, very casually got into the car and drove away like it was his. It is pretty disgusting to watch,” Anderson said.

Anderson said not only does he feel violated, he and his wife are dealing with incredible loss.

“We had things that we will never be able to get back,” he said.

Police told Pozen that items worth about $7,000, including a Roomba vacuum cleaner, were stolen. That amount doesn’t include the car.

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