Thieves Steal Computers, Tablets from Cars in Restaurant Parking Lot

Three cars were broken into in the same parking lot outside of a restaurant on Windward Parkway on June 20, and their drivers might have learned the lesson that it's not enough to lock your vehicle to safeguard your valuables.

Milton police report that a Texas man had stopped for lunch at Sushi Nami at noon. He left to go back to work 45 minutes later. Popping open the trunk of his rental car, he discovered that his computer bag containing his laptop, iPad 3 and an external hard drive, worth approximately $2,300, had been stolen.

When police checked out the car, they discovered a hole under the driver's door handle where it apparently had been forced open.
Blurry video footage from the restaurant's security camera showed someone opening the trunk and taking something out.

An Alpharetta man lost his laptop, iPad and Google Nexus 7 tablet to a thief while he was eating at the Sushi Nami at the same time as the Texas man.

He told Milton police that he locked his Ford pickup truck when he went inside the restaurant at noon. But when he returned, his computer bag that he left in the back seat looked empty. When he checked it he discovered he was right.

Apparently a thief had jumped into his truck's bed and pried open the rear window to get at his computer bag.

The stolen items were worth approximately $2,000.

A Dunwoody man who ate lunch at the restaurant that same afternoon discovered that an $1,800 laptop computer and its charger were stolen out of his SUV.

The victim had left his computer bag on the back floor panel while he was eating in the restaurant. He locked his vehicle, but someone pried the driver's door handle to open the door.

Trees blocked the view of his car from a restaurant security camera.

Milton Man Loses Computer, iPad to Thief

On June 19, a Milton man also reported someone had broken into his car and stolen a MacBook Pro, iPad, external hard drive and a backpack, with a combined value of more than $3,000.

The victim reported he was out of town for a few days and when he returned on June 19, he discovered the items missing from his car at Deerfield Point. A tracking application on his iPad failed to locate the tablet because it was turned off.