Hair thieves have struck again in southwest Atlanta, smashing their way through a glass door and grabbing human hair valued at $50,000 total from a store on Camp Creek Parkway, Channel 2 Action News reports.
It was the second theft in recent months involving a Beauty Masters store.
Three masked men struck at 2 a.m. Tuesday, breaking into the Beauty Masters II store in the Camp Creek Marketplace shopping center on Camp Creek Parkway. Surveillance video shows the trio frantically grabbing single-strand weaves from the shelves before fleeing.
On the early morning of June 16, thieves smashed their way into another business owned by the same individual, the Beauty Master store at 3031 Headland Drive S.W. near Greenbriar Parkway.
Four burglars wearing gloves and masks and driving a black Chevrolet Suburban shattered two front entry doors with a rock and took $30,000 in Remi hair extensions that individually sold for $140 and up.
In an earlier heist, May 26, gloved and masked thieves rammed a car through the front door of the Beauty Emporium on Riverdale Road in Clayton County and made off with an estimated $10,000 in hair extensions.
The New York Times reported in May that thieves targeting extensions stole $150,000 in hair from a Houston salon, $90,000 in extensions from a beauty supply store in Chicago and $85,000 in hair from a store in Missouri City, Texas.
Other cities reporting similar thefts include San Diego, San Leandro, Calif., and Dearborn, Mich.
Packages of the most expensive hair type can cost as much as $200 in beauty supply stores, but hair extensions have turned up being sold out of car trunks for as little as $25, the Times said.
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