GEORGIA COMPUTERS STOLEN Rome News - Tribune:

Metal company target of burglar

Rome police detectives are investing a weekend burglary that saw a computer and cash taken, reports stated.

According to police reports, the East Third Street metal company was broken into sometime over the weekend after a suspect used a cutting torch from the business to cut metal bars off the window.

Once inside, the suspect took a computer, several rolls of quarters and miscellaneous change taken from a cash register. Another computer was damaged during the burglary, and police did not yet have a final sum of the estimated cost of the damage.

Detectives took physical evidence from the business and are continuing to investigate.

Weekend burglary of sports shop sees computers, cash taken

Rome police are investigating a burglary at a local sports shop that saw $2,700 in computers and cash taken after a contractor finished up work Saturday.

The owner of the shop in the 300 block of Dodd Blvd. found that $600 in checks and $250 in cash were taken, along with an HP desktop computer, an Acer laptop computer and an HP printer.

A contractor working on the store told police that he left the store around 9:15 p.m. and might have forgotten to lock the doors. He also told police that he saw a suspicious white SUV driving slowly through the parking lot at the time.

Police are continuing to investigate and are looking into physical evidence that might have been left behind by the burglar.