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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Main Street burglars get $90,000 in cash, phones Monday
DAYTON - Dayton’s burglary squad was busy Monday morning, June 22, investigating three incidents that resulted in nearly $90,000 in stolen cash and cell phones.
The biggest take was at the Marathon gas station, 1845 N. Main St. The owner arrived to open the gas station about 7:30 a.m. and reported $80,000 missing from safes in a back office, according to a police report.
The owner told officers he was in a hurry the night before and forgot to lock the safes, the report stated. Video surveillance showed two males came through the roof of the station and put the money in a plastic bag.
The burglars were wearing dark clothing with white shoes, the report stated. The footage was too dark to give officers a clear look at the suspects.
Employees at the Cricket Wireless store, 3134 N. Main St., arrived Monday at 10 a.m. to find the building had been broken into and nearly $8,000 in cash and cell phones were taken, the report stated.
The store, owned by Amir Enterprises Inc., has an alarm that was activated about 3:30 a.m., but no one responded, an employee said, because they thought mice tripped the alarm, the report stated.
Police were not notified at 3:30 a.m. because employees did not want to pay a possible false alarm fine, the report stated.
Officers determined burglars cut the deadbolts on the store’s security roll-down doors and pried open the back door.
The store does have video surveillance but detectives were not able to view it at the time due to it being protected by a password, the report stated. The store’s owner has the password and was not immediately available.
There have been no arrests made in either of the burglaries, but Sgt. Dan Mauch said the incidents could be connect to the same burglars.
But thanks to a quick-acting witness there was an arrest in the burglary of the Shell gas station at 1 E. Stewart St.
Police said a passerby noticed Rodney S. Giddings, 32, trying to break into the station about 2:45 a.m.
The passerby called 911 and police arrived at the store to find Giddings inside, the report stated. Giddings busted a store window get in but did no other significant damage, the report stated.
Cigarettes were found on the floor of the store and a liquor cabinet had been disturbed, the report stated. The owner of the Shell station is the same owner of the Marathon station where the $80,000 was taken, Mauch said.
The owner of the stations has not provided anymore surveillance footage, Mauch said.
If anyone has details related to the burglaries they are urged to call 333-COPS.
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