2 men arrested, accused of swiping $1M in goods from Morningside Lenox-Park residents

ATLANTA - The Atlanta Police Department is calling the arrests of two suspects believed to be responsible for the string of burglaries in the Morningside Lenox-Park neighborhood a "major win."

APD released body cam video of the arrests of Aurelius Brown and Tiger Hollingsworth on Thursday. 

Investigators say Hollingsworth is the primary suspect and Brown is another suspect in a string of burglaries that have kept neighbors in the Morningside Lenox-park neighborhood awake at night for months. 

"As a unit and as a department, it's a major win," said Lt. Damian Crowder with APD’s Burglary Unit. 

We first reported to you in July that burglars were targeting homes in Morningside Lenox-park.

Neighbors there shared surveillance video of a burglar going through their homes while they were on vacation, always with the same outfit and M.O.

More than a dozen homes there were hit this year.

"They took some collector cards, some safes, some handguns and some high-end watches and some high-end jewelry as well," Crowder said.  

However, Crowder says they were able to recover a lot of the stolen items at the residence where they found Hollingsworth and Brown. 

"We did recover several safes. We did recover several handguns. We did recover some cards and some collected coins, and that's just to name a few things that we actually recovered," Crowder said. "We're still going through all of the pieces that were actually taken from the location where we apprehended the suspect. But, we're thinking that it is in the ballpark of $1,000,000-plus."

Investigators have charged Hollingsworth with four burglaries in the neighborhood so far, but they’re not ruling out more.  

"It is still ongoing, and there's still more that they're going to be linked to," Crowder said.

Neighbors tell FOX 5 they pushed the police department to keep up the investigation and even held community meetings with investigators. 

Crowder says the cooperation from the Morningside Lenox-park neighbors was critical to these arrests.

"The Morningside community was a really, really big help. [They were] very engaged during the operation. Anything that we needed, any video that they could come up with, it was always sent to us and that was a huge part of it," Crowder said. 

Lt. Crowder says this is a good reminder of how important surveillance video can be and to make sure yours is working properly. 

"If you have video surveillance at your house, make sure that it's actually working, and know what type of system you have. Know if your system is a live feed and if your system is one that actually records," he said.