Several empty gun cases were stolen from a pawn shop in Stone Mountain early Wednesday after suspects smashed a truck into the store.
Security cameras caught a man backing a stolen maroon Dodge Ram into Stone Mountain Pawn on Rockbridge Road, according to the DeKalb police report.
The man was wearing a white baseball hat, blue shirt, gloves and a scarf around his face.
He beat a hole in the drywall with a hammer and crawled into the store through it. He grabbed several empty gun cases before leaving.
It is unclear how many suspects were on the scene. Store owner Rick Bryan said “a bunch of them” can be seen on tape standing outside the store while the robbery is taking place, but the police report mentions only one man.
Bryan said the smash and grab took about 25 to 30 minutes.
The suspect ran from the store, and the Dodge was still running at the scene when DeKalb police arrived.
The pawn shop has been burglarized twice earlier this year. But Bryan said this incident was different because nothing of value was taken.
“You back a pick-up truck into the front of the building, which risks your life, and then you go inside and you take an empty gun case. An empty plastic case, that’s all you take,” he said. “It doesn’t make sense to me.”
Suspects in the first two burglaries smashed through the wall and the ceiling of the pawn shop to take items of value, such as laptops.
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