BONIFAY — The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Bonifay Police Department, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a string of vehicle burglaries.
On Monday morning, the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a citizen reporting his truck had been stolen sometime during the early morning hours. The citizen also discovered an abandoned vehicle in his yard. It was then discovered the abandoned car had been stolen from a residence in Washington County earlier that morning.
Throughout the morning the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office received reports of burglaries of vehicles along State 79. Purses, phones, credit cards and money were among the items taken from the vehicles. Investigators located surveillance video from a convenience store in Bonifay during the time frame where a credit card taken in a vehicle burglary from Bay County was used.
If you have any information regarding these incidents, contact the HCSO at 850-547-4421 or your local law enforcement agency.