Group of thieves steals nearly $10,000 worth of equipment from elementary school

FLOYD COUNTY, Ga. — Surveillance video given to Channel 2 Action News shows a group of thieves breaking into an elementary school and getting away with nearly $10,000 in expensive school equipment.

The school is currently undergoing renovations, so the alarm was not set, but the surveillance cameras were working.

Investigators say the burglars, two men and two women, stayed inside the school for hours and never realized their crime was all caught on camera.

“They weren’t in a hurry. They seemed very casual walking through," said Kylie York, a detective with the Rome Police Department.

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The burglary crew stayed inside North Heights Elementary School for three hours stealing just about anything they could find, from toilet paper and bleach to pricey computers. Nothing was off-limits.

"(They took) five Apple iMacs, desktop computers and one laptop computer," York said.

Rome police said it happened Wednesday night.

“They did have some bandanas and stuff covering their face, but they weren’t trying to hide themselves," York said.

Beatric Gibson lives near the school and said she's never seen the group of people before.

“Nobody knows how they got in, so I don’t know," she said. “It was right in my backyard, and I knew nothing about it.”

Investigators got some tips in the case and think they’re close to identifying at least two of the thieves.

“When we do find them, they will be charged with burglary in the second degree and theft by taking," York said.

Police are also checking to see if the group is in any way connected to other burglaries in the area.

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