Behind a patch of overgrown weeds, up a steep hill, sits a brown warehouse off Highway 138 in Fayette County, near the Clayton County line.

Fayette County Planning and Zoning officials say the structure located at 1660 Hwy. 138, S.W., Riverdale, is zoned R-40, which allows single-family residential homes with minimum one-acre lots. But law enforcement officials say the structure is not used to house families, but stolen automobile parts.

Authorities received information that someone affiliated with the location toured roads looking for vehicles abandoned on the side of the road.

Some of the owners likely ran out of gas or needed a minor repair and they went to get help.

"They came back and their car was gone," explained Charles Willey spokesman for the Georgia Department of Revenue.

Using a tow truck, the employees of the facility allegedly hauled the vehicles