Victims claim items stolen in burglaries

Witnesses, tips helped officers capture suspects, recover goods

Ronnie and April McCollum gets some help from Bulloch County Sheriff's Department Investigator Jared Akins, left, in recovering items stolen from their home after a multiple arrests for area burglary and robbery cases in the past week.

062410 BURGLARY ARRESTS 03web — Ronnie and April McCollum gets some help from Bulloch County Sheriff's Department Investigator Jared Akins, left, in recovering items stolen from their home after a multiple arrests for area burglary and robbery cases in the past week.

More than a dozen burglary victims filed into the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office courtroom Thursday afternoon, where a vast array of plasma TVs, video game consoles, lap top computers, guns, jewelry, coins and power tools were spread out as if someone were having an estate sale. The items had been stolen over the past three weeks by a ring of burglary suspects who targeted homes in the Banks Dairy Road, Friendship Church road, Ga. 67, Langston Chapel Road and Sinkhole Road areas, said Bulloch County Sheriff Lynn Anderson. But when one suspect pawned some jewelry that had been stolen from a victim, investigators jumped on the trail.

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