DUNWOODY, Ga. — Thieves posing as city workers targeted an elderly Dunwoody couple, getting away with thousands of dollars in jewelry and a handgun.
"I feel angry and just sick," said the 79-year-old female victim, whose identity has been withheld for her safety. “I believed what he said when he said he worked for the city."
Still shakened, the woman told Channel 2’s Michael Buczyner that a man, posing as a city worker, came to her home Wednesday afternoon while another man waited inside a tan truck parked on her driveway.
“He said he worked with the city and that they were going to be trimming trees and cutting down trees in the area,” she said.
The woman said she and her husband allowed the man into their backyard after he asked to look at the trees. She said the man was speaking Spanish on a hand-held radio to the other man who was waiting inside the truck.
“He cleaned me out, except for what I had on,” the woman said.
She told Buczyner that the other man who was waiting inside the truck came into her home and stole all of her jewelry, including her engagement ring, which she received 53 years ago.
“I had a lot of that jewelry for several years, and I’ll never get a chance to replace it,” she said.
Buczyner obtained a copy of the elderly couple's police report that said the men got away with $20,000 in jewelry and a handgun.
The victim described the men as two Hispanic males driving a tan truck.
WSBTV
