Jan 19, 2009 12:29 am US/Eastern
Smash & Grab Thieves Target Hialeah Best Buy
HIALEAH (CBS4) ―
Hialeah police are searching for several individuals who broke into a Best Buy store early Sunday morning.
Hialeah police detective Eddie Rodriguez said they received a call from an employee that a group of people had 'ripped the rear doors off the building' and burglarized the store at 4001 West 20th Avenue around 5 a.m.
Police set up a perimeter and were able to detain two out of the four vehicles they believe were used during the burglary. Four individuals; three men and a woman were taken into custody. Rodriguez said both vehicles had been reported stolen and both contained items stolen from the Best Buy store.
Store employees have been ordered to do an inventory to determine how much merchandise was taken.
Rodriguez told
CBS4 News that the break in was very similar to a rash of smash and grab robberies at electronic and big box stores over the last couple of weeks. He believes the subjects hooked a chain or some other cable to one of the cars and used it to pull the doors from their frames to gain access. He said the cars found early Sunday morning showed no signs of damage as if they had been used to ram the doors off their hinges.
Last weekend a group of smash and grab bandits burglarized two Best Buy locations, in Doral and Hialeah, and a CompUSA in Ft. Lauderdale. On the following Monday, Port Electronics on the 17th Street Causeway in Ft. Lauderdale and a Circuit City in Kendall were also the victims of smash and grab burglaries.
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