‘Crawling burglar’ faces 25-count indictment

A suspected serial burglar may not be able to crawl away this time. He’s facing a 25-count indictment in Cobb County, according to the district attorney.

The grand jury indicted Aron Jermaine Major on one count of racketeering and 24 counts of second-degree burglary in his alleged crime spree that lasted from September 2020 until his arrest in June 2021, court records show. Major, 49, has been held in the Cobb jail since his arrest during a traffic stop.

According to various Cobb police agencies, a suspected serial burglar would crawl into businesses during the overnight hours after removing a windowpane or breaking a window. He kept crawling, hoping not to set off any motion detectors until he reached the cash or alcohol, police said. Then, the “crawling burglar” crawled back out, sometimes replaced the window, and was off to the next business, according to authorities.

But surveillance images of Major’s tag number helped investigators identify him as their suspect. The clothes worn by the burglar in security videos helped link him to dozens of crimes, according to police. “The burglary is consistent with the MO seen in a much larger string of burglaries within unincorporated Cobb County and surrounding jurisdictions,” an arrest warrant states. “Namely, that said burglaries all displayed such common actions as removal of glass panes, concealment of the point of entry, crawling upon entry into the business, and the targeting of the office safe and its contents.”

When he was arrested, Major was no stranger to police. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, he has served four prison sentences since 1992 for felony convictions in Gwinnett, Fulton and Henry counties. Most recently, he served about two years before being released in April 2018, records show. Major’s rap sheet contains several burglary convictions.