‘Crawling burglar’ indicted in two dozen Cobb burglaries

Mar. 14—An Atlanta man who has garnered the nickname “the crawling burglar” was indicted by a Cobb grand jury on 24 counts of housebreaking and one depend of racketeering associated to a string of alleged burglaries in Cobb County.

Aron Jermaine Main, 49, has been detained on the Cobb County Grownup Detention Middle since his arrest on June 1, 2021, based on jail data. Arrest warrants for the suspect describe a sample of late-night and early-morning burglaries the place the suspect used strategies harking back to a heist film.

Main’s son, Aron Main, Jr., was additionally arrested on a single depend of tampering with proof the day after his father was arrested. Main Jr. was indicted for tampering with proof by the identical grand jury final week.

Based on arrest warrants, Main eliminated or broke home windows to crawl into quite a few companies whereas they have been closed, prying open safes, money drawers and stealing merchandise. Money, alcohol and cigarettes have been the widespread targets of the suspect.

Police imagine Main’s string of burglaries started on Sept. 22, 2020 with break-ins at The Wing Cafe and Faucet Home and Marietta Martial Arts at East Lake Procuring Middle and the Fuji Hana restaurant on Johnson Ferry Street.

Main can also be suspected of breaking into Ming’s Asian Kitchen and Pink Curry Thai eating places on Decrease Roswell Street, a Havoline Categorical oil change store, Peace, Love and Pizza on East Piedmont Street, Mink’s Bundle Retailer on Delk Street, Tokyo Valentino East Cobb, Mellow Mushroom on Powers Ferry Street, Laredo’s Mexican Restaurant on Sandy Plains Street, a BP gasoline station in Austell, and a Jason’s Deli, Dickey’s BBQ, Moe’s, and Flying Biscuit in Kennesaw.

Police recovered clothes and enterprise checks from Fuji Hana, greater than 100 cartons of Newport cigarettes, lottery tickets, giant quantities of money, a singular jacket matching surveillance movies at a number of break-ins, and different stolen gadgets from totally different companies on the suspect’s house, based on warrants.

Based on the Georgia Division of Corrections, Main was sentenced 4 occasions for earlier burglaries and different crimes in metro Atlanta courting again to 1992.