A 15-year law enforcement veteran, joined by several other residents in a McDonough neighborhood, were in Henry County Magistrate Court, Wednesday, each facing a charge of burglary.
They were allegedly doing what has become routine in many communities where evictions and abandonments occur rifling through, and taking the belongings of others without permission, according to police.
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