Gainesville Police are investigating a burglary that happened Friday on Burns Drive that may help them solve numerous other burglaries in the city and the county.

City police officers found several stolen items at a home on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard while investigating Friday’s burglary, according to a news release from Gainesville Police Sgt. Shawn Welsh.

Around 11:30 a.m. Friday, a Burns Drive resident returned home to see a white Buick backing out of his driveway at a high rate of speed.

The resident saw that an undisclosed amount of property had been taken from his residence and contacted police.

The resident was able to provide the tag number to police, and it was later discovered that the Buick was stolen on Dec. 9. Within minutes, police located the vehicle, which had been abandoned at Myrtle Street Apartments. There, witnesses told police that two black males had left the vehicle on foot toward Mill Street Apartments.

Items found inside the vehicle led patrol officers to a vacant residence in the 2500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, where police recovered all the items stolen from the Burns Drive burglary and more property that had been reported stolen in separate incidents in Gainesville and Hall County.

The police department’s criminal investigation division is still following leads to find the suspects, according to the release.

Anyone with any additional information regarding this incident can contact the Gainesville Police Department’s Criminal Investigative Division at 770-534-5254 or 770-534-5252.