HOUSTON – The office of U.S. Rep. Gene Green D, Texas, was among more than 25 businesses that were broken into Wednesday at an east Houston office building.
Houston police said the first calls about the burglaries at the Atrium 10 Tower, located at 11811 East Freeway, near John Ralston Road, were received about 6 a.m.
Inside Wilfred Broussard’s office, the thieves tore various awards and plaques off his walls and rifled through every desk drawer, but took nothing.
“Yeah, I just don’t understand it. They didn’t take anything of any value, just made a huge mess. I don’t know what they were looking for,” Broussard said.
Down one hallway where seven offices were hit, large pieces of broken drywall and torn insulation lay everywhere and a series of smashed out holes in the walls greeted business owners.
“Who would go to this much trouble and destroy so much, just to break into offices and take almost nothing”, Lori Brown said.
At Brown's office at Trans Global Solutions, thieves stole two laptop computers but nothing else.
In one room they rummaged through a large cabinet but never even touched an expensive 70-inch HD television that hangs above a cabinet.
“That monitor is worth a lot of money and they left it,” Brown said.
Pictures of the scene showed a large hole in the wall next to the window in Green’s office. Similar holes could be seen in the walls of other offices on other floors.
Channel 2 News tried to contact Green’s office Wednesday, but never received a response.
Houston police are investigating the case and have obtained video of the burglars making their way through the building.
Two different towers, the Atrium 10 Tower and the building next door at 11811 East Freeway were hit.
But, the bulk of the businesses affected are located in the Atrium 10 Tower.