Churches Targeted By Burglars

Tonight in any -- crime tracker learned they hit late at night or early in the morning burglars are targeting churches across -- Central Florida. Looking for cash but leaving computers and other valuables. News channel is Peter Bernard shows how one Bay Area pastor of his congregations laws could prove to be a lesson for others.

The news they were going grotto where there's big news that we're going into the door there. The north Baptist Church in Spring Hill is the latest in a long list of churches broken into by thieves after money left in the collection plate. Late last Sunday early Monday someone got through -- locked doors to a hidden room. We had three locked face -- and then the monies that were and wok brags. The thieves used special tools to take thousands they got the doors off the face they took the money bags and left. The same day down highway nineteen a few miles crooks made off with cash at saint Teresa's Catholic church and in early February the divine life worst of senator. Crandall county isn't alone in -- rash of church burglaries six Bay Area counties have reported the same thing dating back to last July. They did churches in Levy lake Sumter and Hernando counties in interest county they hit eighteen churches in seven months and deputies recovered several empty a last weekend's Tyson -- that isn't the first crime against the facility we had just been broken into less than a month ago -- broke into our office area. Did several hundred dollars worth of damages. Senior pastor wall as they used the donations to feed the hungry a just with a mortgage payments and utility. He says church members are already coming forward to make extra offerings to replace what thieves took. Hernando deputies say the crooks may have attended church last Sunday and watched carefully as cash filled the collection plates plaster wall offers a tip to all -- If you receive an offering and you see someone paying attention to -- being received and where the offering this going. Need to keep enough on that individual. He plans to install additional security we have determined. That those gods don't get the last word on this and not evildoers. Peter Bernard news Channel 8.