Victim Speaks After Burglar Caught

GAINESVILLE - [watch] Updating a story from the last couple of days. We've shown you the pictures of a woman who was a burglary suspect in Hall County. Tonight, that woman is in custody. WNEG's Amelia Hines tells us how they caught her and what one victim had to say.

"This is my mother's gun and when she passed away I got it. So it was things like that I wanted back." Tammy Meade Snodgrass says her home in the Georgian Manor community was broken into while her family was away on vacation late last month.

"She got through the window downstairs. We have a walk out basement and she was able to get into a window downstairs," Snodgrass tells WNEG News.

Hall County authorities say 41-year-old Rhonda Rollinson is behind this burglary and at least two others in Flowery Branch. They say Rollinson is responsible for taking laptops, cameras, guns, harmonicas, jewelry, iphones, and several other items from those residences.

"Fifty percent of these items have been identified from Hall County burglaries. We have additional charges pending other than the three we've charged now," Hall County Col. Jeff Strickland explains.

Investigators got a break in this case earlier this week after surveillance photos surfaced of Rhonda Rollinson and her car.

"A very alert Flowery Branch officer observed the car late last night at an Exxon gas station and notified our investigators. Our investigators worked throughout the night and were able to identify Rollinson," Strickland says.

Rhonda Rollinson was arrested around noon Wednesday in her boyfriend, Benjamin Jefferson Finley's home.

Finley was also arrested today. Gwinnett County police have charged him with theft by receiving and obstruction.

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Victim Speaks After Burglar Caught