Multiple convenience stores in Ellijay have taken financial blows after being burglarized, both within the past month.
According to the incident report, Timbuktu Convenience Store along South Main Street, was broken into Thursday, March 13, around 4 a.m.
Supervisor Ovais Sajan said two suspects cut through their back wall and went under a coffee machine to enter.
“They were crawling on the ground, avoiding motion sensors,” he explained. “They kicked open the door, broke the door and then entered the office.”
That’s when Sajan said the suspects damaged his desk drawer, took his change box and deposits and then stole cash from the register, setting off an alarm before exiting the store through the hole they cut in the wall.
Police were on the property within seven to eight minutes after the alarm went off, for which Sajan expressed his gratitude. Timbuktu lost $2,500, not including the cost of repairs to the damaged property.
Green’s Country Store on Old Hwy. 5 was also burglarized. It happened early Friday morning, Feb. 28, according to the incident report.
Owner Dhtrmender Singh said the unidentified suspects cut a hole in the wall to access his office, cut the wires of the alarm system and tried taking their safe, but it was attached to the ground.
From cash the suspects stole from the register, and the cost to repair the wall and fix damages to their alarm system, he said the store suffered a loss of $45,000.
Both burglaries remain under investigation by the Ellijay Police Department.