Crime & Safety
Man Charged in $85K Burglaries
Authorities served a search warrant Thursday and arrested a Cartersville man accused of stealing Georgia Department of Transportation equipment.
Investigators have charged a Cartersville man in connection with four burglaries of facilities and the thefts of $85,000 in property.
Authorities served a search warrant Thursday at the Law Road home of Jesse Daniel Thacker, 34, seeking the allegedly stolen property, Sheriff Clark Millsap said in a news release. Following the search, investigators arrested and charged Thacker in connection with the four burglaries.
Millsap described the alleged burglaries:
- During the weekend prior to Jan.20 on GDOT property on West View Drive off U.S. Highway 411, $6,402 worth of tools, power equipment and a Chevrolet S-10 truck were taken.
- A total of $16,605 in tools, power equipment and a Ford F-150 truck were stolen during the weekend prior to May 14 from GDOT property on Old Martin Road.
- On GDOT property on Joe Frank Harris Parkway south of Cartersville during the weekend prior to May 29, $33,088 worth of property was taken, including a Ford Escort, tools and power equipment.
- In the final burglary during the weekend prior to July 10, $31,309 of property was stolen from GDOT property on Peeples Valley Road, including a Ford F-150, computers, tools and power equipment.
So far, police have recovered more than $20,000 of the allegedly hot property, including two vehicles.
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They say their investigation is ongoing and they expect other arrests and the recovery of more property.
Thacker has been released on $35,000 bond.
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