Flat-screen TVs still popular with thieves

Athens residents continued to report thefts of flat-screen televisions during the holiday weekend, following police raids last week at several area convenience stores suspected in fencing operations targeting the expensive TVs and laptop computers.

► Sunday morning between 9:15 and 9:40 a.m., someone kicked open the back door of an apartment at the Shoal Creek complex in the 900 block of Barnett Shoals Road, where a 57-inch plasma TV valued at $1,200 was stolen, police said. A resident was sleeping inside at the time of the break-in, according to a police report.

► Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday, someone entered through a window at an apartment in the 100 block of Howell Way and stole a 42-inch LCD TV, a desktop computer and monitor and a digital camera, valued together at $2,250, police said.

► At 5 p.m. Sunday, a witness reported an open door at an apartment in the 100 block of Williams Street, where a burglar had broken in and stolen a 42-inch flat-screen TV valued at $1,000, police said.

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