Thieves apparently used a screwdriver to break into the vehicles of eight Georgia Tech football players this week in the parking lot of the Midtown hotel where the team is staying for preseason practices, Atlanta police said.
The incident happened between 9 p.m. Sunday and around 2 a.m. Monday at the Marriott Courtyard hotel on Techwood Drive, just south of 14th Street.
According to a police incident report obtained Wednesday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the thieves hit vehicles belonging to players Matthew Jordan, Chase Alford, Tyler Merriweather, Michael Muns, Rod Rook-Chungong, Andrew Marshall, Austin McClellan and Quaide Weimerskirch.
While some of the players reported only windows broken out and nothing taken from their vehicles, checkbooks were stolen from Jordan’s GMC Sierra and from Muns’s Chevrolet Silverado and a Gerber multi-tool was taken from McClellan’s Toyota Tundra, according to the police report.
The thieves also stole a Georgia Tech briefcase from the vehicle of Brad Waggoner, Tech’s assistant director of player personnel.
A vehicle belonging to Georgia Public Broadcasting was also broken into, but nothing was taken.
“It appeared that the suspects used a screwdriver as a tool to gain entry into all of the vehicles,” the police report states.
Chris Yandle, Georgia Tech’s assistant athletic director for communications, told the AJC Monday that, “at this time, we are declining to comment.”
The incident was the second in recent weeks in which multiple cars were broken into in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel.
Late last month, 20 cars were broken into in one night at a hotel adjacent to Turner Field.
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