Grant Park robbery, déjà viewed — UPDATE
August 30, 2009 at 3:03 pm by Scott Henry in NewsDan and Alyssa Kopp’s surveillance video of their Grant Park home being robbed last fall was such a hit they’ve made a sequel.
If you were among the more than 37,000 people who watched the first video on YouTube, you’ll recall that it shows three perps checking out the house, kicking in a side door and carrying out a mammoth flat-screen TV. They were in the house less than 30 seconds.
Aided by tips from video-viewers, police raided a house in nearby East Lake a few days later, nabbing six suspects and retrieving eight stolen flat-screen televisions, three laptops and several digital cameras.
Well, apparently someone didn’t get the memo that the Kopp home is rigged with cameras. Alyssa just alerted me that their house was broken into again this past Friday. This time it was four suspects, but the MO was exactly the same: ring the doorbell, kick in a door and then, in and out in less than a minute.
And, as you’ve no doubt guessed, the robbers were again captured on tape (or, more likely, hard drive). Judging from the video below, it looks as if the Kopps have installed even more cameras than they had last year. Also, this time, no flat-screen.
It’s a pisser to be robbed twice in less than a year, but Alyssa is optimistic:
Since we were so successful in catching them last time, we are asking for the media’s assistance again in getting these pictures and the video circulated far and wide in the hopes that we’ll have the same luck.
I think we can help you out there.
The Kopps ID the robbers’ vehicle as a black Nissan Armada with the rear passenger hubcap missing. Go to the YouTube page for a few other details.
Update: Alyssa reports that the robbers did steal her laptop — the same one that was recovered from last year’s break-in — and they did some damage to the home and, from the video, appear to have thrown a bar stool at her dog.
As for the gentlemen caught red-handed with the loot last fall:
Just fyi, our case from last year is going through the system right now and that is a whole other mess. Seems arrests are just the start- it’s getting them actual jail time that’s the challenge.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
How can there be so many criminals in one area? What is happening to inner-city Atlanta?
August 31st, 2009 at 9:43 am
I believe you mean the “perception” of criminals…
August 31st, 2009 at 3:17 pm
The homeowner’s are named Dan and Alyssa Kopp? Was the burglar’s last name Robirs?
August 31st, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Oh, a wise guy, huh?