Tattooed burglary suspect caught on camera taking Snickers bars, business owner says

A rash of recent break-ins at Randy Shaw’s recycling business on the edge of downtown Macon was puzzling.

The business, Diversified Recycling on Waterville Road, grinds up plastic bottles and resells them. There isn’t much that would likely catch the eye of a thief.

“They come in here and don’t see nothing but forklifts and machinery,” Shaw said earlier this month.

In the wee hours of March 11, Shaw’s security cameras recorded footage of a man who had already made his way inside the business, which is in an industrial area just east of Broadway near the Eisenhower Parkway overpass.

The burglar could be seen busting into an interior office. The man smashed a glass window and shimmied inside. But the office door, mere feet to his left, wasn’t even locked.

“All he had to do was walk into the door that standing 2 inches open,” Shaw said. “We never lock the doors coming into the office. We don’t want people breaking in because we don’t have anything in there for them to get.”

Surveillance cameras captured the man’s heavily tattooed face.

His loot? About $100 worth of postage stamps and some Snickers bars.

The place has been broken into four times since then, and not all the culprits have been the same person, Shaw said. One man in later burglary took a couple of tools and some more food, Shaw said.

“Six cans of boiled peanuts that I have here for snacks,” Shaw said.

On Friday, police told that a man was arrested in the March 11 break-in..

The suspect, Jeffrey Clayton Reeves, was charged with burglary and probation violation.

Reeves, 35, got out of prison in January after serving six years for theft and burglary convictions in Albany.

This story was originally published March 29, 2019 at 2:47 PM.