$100,000 Worth of Apple Products Stolen from a Best Buy; Thieves Used the Roof to Enter and Escape

In a rather bold burglary operation, thieves broke into a Best Buy recently and stole Apple products that were worth over $100,000. The perpetrators apparently used the building’s roof to get inside and to escape with the goods. As burglaries go, this one was for the history books as it has been described as "a 'Mission Impossible' style burglary."

The incident occurred in a Best Buy store located at Hammond Drive in Dunwoody, Georgia. According to local news station WSB-TV, the burglars made a hole in the roof and then proceeded to rappel down into the store. This is the kind of audacious act that is thought to really happen only in action films. Apparently, this just isn’t the case anymore.

None of the suspects have been identified so far, nor is it known how many of them there were. There were no cameras working in the store at the time. As of now, there has been no footage from other surveillance cameras in the area that shows the thieves either coming or going.

As PC Mag notes, this might not even be the first time that thieves committed such a crime in the same fashion. Similar incidents have apparently occurred in Florida and Texas.

Among the products that were stolen were iPhones, Macs, iPads, and a variety of other accessories and devices. It isn’t known if the thieves broke in to steal products specifically from Apple, but this wouldn’t be the first time.

Prior to the launch of the iPhone X last year, for example, a UPS truck full of the smartphone was robbed. The robbers stole numerous units of the device worth $370,000, 9to5Mac reports, and it was right outside of an Apple Store in San Francisco. With this latest incident, it would seem thieves are becoming bolder, as of late.