The thieves took the mother's good shoes and the father's best shirts.

They took perfume and cologne.

And they even took a little girl's piggy bank.

They've hit more than one house in Acworth and it looks like they have moved on to other neighborhoods in metro Atlanta.

Acworth police are looking for a group of thieves who burglarized four homes in May.

The group — at least eight men using two SUVs — have also hit homes in Cobb County and Lilburn, said Captain Wayne Dennard, an Acworth police spokesman.

Dennard said the men operate something like this:

The SUVs drive through a neighborhood several times. Then one man knocks on a door and asks for a Hispanic male. When he's told the person doesn't live there he asks other questions about who lives in the nearby homes.

Police believe he is trying to pinpoint homes where Hispanics live. Once he's zeroed in on a home, he knocks on that door. When he figures out no one is home, the rest of the crew moves in.

The men, wearing hard hats and reflective vests, break in and take what ever they can take. With so many working together, the thieves are leaving with boxes and bags full of stuff, Dennard said.

One victim, who asked that her name not be used, said the thieves who broke into her home and took her daughter's piggy bank, a bottle of loose change, shoes, boots, clothes, perfume, and cologne. They also took two computers and a 20-inch flat screen television.

Dennard said the men burglarized homes on May 2, May 6 and two on May 13.

In a May 16 burglary in Lilburn police found a hard hat left behind and witnesses told police they saw several people leaving in a gray SUV.

In that burglary, in the Ashford Cove neighborhood, the thieves took some jewelry. They were also trying to take a safe, but left it behind, Davidson said.

Police said it's unusual for thieves to take things like clothes, shoes and perfume.

But "if they can't find anything worth stealing, they will steal anything," Davidson said.

It's also unusual for so many to be working together, he said.

Dennard said homeowner who had set up a video camera for security around his home inadvertently captured the burglary of a home across the street in the Lake Park neighborhood.

Anyone with information regarding this crime is asked to call the Acworth Police Criminal Investigation Division at 770-974-1232.

Acworth police said the SUVs used in the burglaries are a champagne colored Chevrolet Suburban and a blue Ford Expedition.