'Tis the season for burglaries as well as for happier things, local law enforcement personnel can attest.

Fayette County Sheriff's Department deputies caught two Riverdale men last week, Peachtree City solved a business burglary, and Fayetteville police are checking leads on an apparent double break-in at Woodgate subdivision on Nov. 25.

According to Lt. Mahlon Donald of the FCSD criminal investigations division, an alert Corinth Road resident notified police Dec. 3 that a possible burglary had taken place and the suspects were leaving the scene. Since the address is in Fayette but right on the Clayton County line, Donald said, officers from both counties got involved in a chase which took them to Pointe South Parkway and into the city of Riverdale.

The suspects rammed both a Fayette and a Clayton patrol car during attempts to elude, Donald said. Both were rounded up shortly after leaving their vehicle on foot on Avalon Way, Donald said. One was found hiding in a trash can, he said, and the other in the neighborhood. The Fayette officer stressed that cooperation was instant and continuing from the Clayton County police, City of Riverdale police, and the Clayton sheriff's deputies who assisted in the search.

As many as a dozen police personnel from the jurisdictions probably cooperated in the search, according to Capt. Doug Jewett of the Clayton County police. He said that aggravated assault charges have been made against both suspects for the striking of the police cars during the chase.

Donald reported that Kemarni Fonte Jones, 19, has been charged with burglary, while the driver of the vehicle, Byron Rashun Brown, 18, is charged with burglary, failure to stop for a stop sign, failure to obey a traffic control device, passing on the shoulder of the road, improper lane change, reckless driving, speeding, passing on a double yellow line and attempting to flee and elude law enforcement officers.

The bright spot in the incident, according to Donald, is that a television, microwave oven, Christmas gifts and other items reportedly taken from the Corinth Road home were recovered in the suspects' vehicle.

Peachtree City police report the arrest of three burglary suspects in a theft from the Dairy Queen Nov. 29. After the restaurant reported about $1900 in cash and coins taken, reports show, a police investigation showed no forced entry. Further investigation and "several search warrants" resulted in the arrest of John W. Hutsell, 18, of Fayetteville.

Police chief James Murray said that Hutsell was an employee of Dairy Queen at the time of the theft and apparently burglarized the building with two other suspects, using a stolen key. Also arrested was Mohammad M. Komaee, 17, of Tyrone. A fugitive warrant has been issued for John A. Dinkins, 20, of Peachtree City, who is believed to be in another state, Murray said, but an arrest is anticipated in the near future.

Meanwhile, Fayetteville police were unable to locate a burglary suspect reportedly fleeing from a home in Woodgate subdivision. Lt. Linda Lash of criminal investigations said that two homes apparently were entered, but no determination could be made on items taken. No descriptions of the suspect were available, and no one was located in a perimeter roadblock at the time of the report about the suspicious person "running from a garage," she said.

Lt. Lash and other officers ask that homeowners use caution particularly during the holidays, keep homes locked and watch your neighborhoods.