The rash of hair thefts that plagued metro Atlanta beauty supply stores all summer long continued into the fall on Tuesday, as burglars smashed their way into a business on Ponce de Leon Avenue.
The thieves, apparently targeting high-dollar Remy hair extensions, shattered the plate glass window of Lexi’s Beauty Supply in the 500 block of Ponce de Leon Avenue, according to Atlanta police.
Unlike other burglaries, the thieves this time got away with very little of value, store owner Travis Tipton said.
“They stole our cash register and an assortment of fake hair,” Tipton told the AJC.
“That’s all they got,” he said. “They got no money, no human hair, nothing of any value.”
Tipton, who opened the store just three weeks ago, estimated that the burglars only took about $60 in merchandise.
“They were probably looking for the Remy hair, which was right there,” he said. “They overlooked it and walked right back out.”
That wasn't the case on Sept. 23, when burglars stole hair strands worth more than $100,000 from the Beauty Master store on Mt. Zion Road in Morrow.
That store's general manager, Lucien Poko, told the AJC that five of the seven Beauty Master stores that he runs in metro Atlanta have been burglarized.
In August, hair weave thieves broke into at least three metro beauty supply stores in a 10-day period.
On June 18, burglars hit the Beauty Master store on Headland Drive near Greenbriar Parkway.
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