Atlanta Police Chief to Talk Security in Buckhead

Atlanta police chief George Turner will be in Buckhead on Thursday night to answer questions from a community rattled by a rash of car break-ins in recent days.

Turner will appear at a public forum at The Lodge on Roswell Road at 6:30 p.m., BuckheadView reports. He will likely face tough questions from Buckhead residents, who have seen nearly 60 cars broken into this week alone.

During a two-day period earlier this week, 58 cars in Buckhead were broken into; on Sept. 8, 31 cars were broken into at a parking lot belonging to the Terraces at Peachtree Condominiums. Police learned that an Xbox controller (which was later discovered with blood on it), an iPhone 5, a bookbag with an HP laptop inside, and a poncho were reported stolen.

Apart from the thefts at the condo complex, police also investigated car break-ins at the Elle of Buckhead apartments, Atlanta Fire Station 28, and the 2800 block of Peachtree Road, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says.

On Sept. 9, thieves hit another three times; 14 cars were broken into at the Berkeley Heights apartments on Northside Drive and a Fulton County marshal’s service weapon was stolen, the AJC says.

Early Thursday, police arrested three people who exited a stolen car parked in a parking deck in the area targeted by the suspects, but investigators have not definitively linked any of them to any of the car break-ins.