Another metro Atlanta beauty supply store was targeted overnight by thieves going after high-dollar hair weaves.
The latest in a long string of weave thefts happened about 2:45 a.m. Thursday at the Beauty Depot in the 800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, just west of downtown, according to Atlanta police dispatchers.
Channel 2 Action News reported that the three thieves rammed a stolen car through the front doors of the store before taking packages of hair extensions from the wall.
The burglars fled in another car, leaving the stolen vehicle partially inside the store.
Police are reviewing security video of the incident, which was the third such burglary at the store.
Channel 2 reported that the thieves took about $2,000 in hair weaves.
Numerous metro Atlanta beauty stores have been hit in the past year by the weave thievery.
In February, a Midtown CVS store was broken into by hair thieves, and in late December, thieves took hair extensions from SJ Beauty and Salon in downtown Conyers.
Last September, 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 at the time that five of the seven Beauty Master stores that he runs in metro Atlanta had been burglarized.
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