Inside the Police Reports: Daytime Burglaries

At least two daytime burglaries were reported in unincorporated Lilburn recently, one while the resident was away from home for just hours.

Sometime between 10 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. on March 29, someone broke into a home in the 4200 block of Burns Road, ransacking the bedrooms and taking cash, two laptops and a diamond ring, according to a Gwinnett County Police Department report.

The house had been broken into by forcing open a rear window on the lower level. The homeowner found two knives in the bedrooms that he said were not his.

In the second incident, a resident on the 4600 block of Dickens Terrace left her house at 11 a.m. on March 29 to go grocery shopping. When she returned home about two hours later, it was apparant that someone had been in the house, and cash and jewelry were missing. 

The suspect pried out the screen, glass and frame of a basement window to get into the house, and had gone "through the entire house and bedrooms searching for items to remove," according to the police report.

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