SELMA —Lola Sewell is thankful she looked down before she stepped inside an office in the 30 block of Broad Street.

She visited the building, the site of Terri Sewell’s congressional campaign headquarters in Selma, last week to see if allegations of a break-in at the office were true. Scanning the room, Sewell saw all the electronics remained in the office, but looking down she noticed a bigger problem.

“That’s when I noticed that the floor was gone,” Sewell said. “Had I walked on in the way I normally do, I would have walked in on a hole. I’m glad that I am a person that pays attention to details.”

Three buildings in the downtown area were broken into Aug. 6, said authorities with the Selma Police Department.

The suspects ripped up the floor in Sewell’s campaign headquarters, then broke through the walls of the other two buildings.

Roy’s Fine Jewelry reported an unknown amount of gold and silver missing. It was also reported that several thousand dollars in electronic equipment was missing from the building next to the jewelry store, used for storage. Roy Boroughs, who owns the jewelry store, declined to discuss the robbery.

Tuesday, police arrested David Antoine Green, 30, for receiving stolen property in the second degree after he attempted to pawn some of the items that were missing from one of the buildings.

He was taken to the Dallas County Jail with a $1,500 bond but was held on a probation bond.

The buildings involved in the incident have significant damage, police said.

Jody Pilcher, of Pilcher Agency Inc., the owner of the property, has started the repairs.

Pilcher said the Carter and Smith Realty Company building has a large hole ripped in the back wall, which cost him $1,400 to repair. He will also fix the flooring and broken locks.

“I’ll fix the locks, but I don’t really know what to do,” Pilcher said.

He estimates it will cost several thousand dollars to fix everything, but he will not know a total cost until all projects are complete.

This incident has made Pilcher and the tenants of the buildings very frustrated.

“You just have to do the best you can and keep fixing until you get tired of it and quit, and I am just about there,” Pilcher said.