Brazen burglars struck a cell phone store Friday within earshot of City Hall East and Atlanta police headquarters.
The Verizon Wireless store at 650 Ponce de Leon Ave. was burglarized shortly before 3 a.m., Atlanta police spokesman Eric Schwartz said.
The suspects busted out a plate glass window on the front of the store, which is in a shopping center directly across the street from the city complex that houses, among other things, police headquarters.
Schwartz didn't have information on what the suspects took from the store.
It wasn't the first time thieves have struck that close to police headquarters.
In November, 2006, the Atlanta City Employees Credit Union inside City Hall East was robbed.
A year later, thieves stole $50,000 in Christmas gifts for poor children from a warehouse in the City Hall East complex.
Early Wednesday, the Centennial Olympic Park Drive townhome of City Council president and mayoral candidate Lisa Borders was broken into while she slept in an upstairs bedroom.
"The intruders were startled and we don't believe anything was taken," police spokesman James Polite said.
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