ATHENS, Georgia (AP) - Thieves in the South have been targeting a Minnesota-based tool supply company, and police are wondering why a specific company's stores are being burglarized.

Police say one of the most recent thefts occurred Sunday night or early Monday morning at a Fastenal store in Athens, the fifth such burglary within about a week.

Police tell The Athens Banner-Herald (http://bit.ly/y5Sdt7) that a Fastenal store in Watkinsville was hit Sunday. Three others were broken into the previous Sunday in Augusta, Martinez and Aiken, S.C.

Athens-Clarke County police Lt. Mike McKeel said officers have been told that about a dozen Fastenal stores had been burglarized in the Atlanta metro area. McKeel says he can't recall any one company being targeted like Winona, Minn.-based Fastenal has in the recent crime spree.