Sheriff asks citizens for help solving robbery cases

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By Susan Taft
Special to the Gazette
 
Numerous burglaries have occurred in Camp County in the last month, and deputies with the Camp County Sheriff’s Department are asking the public to report any vehicles they normally don’t see in their neighborhoods or any activity they would consider suspicious.
“Deputy Andrew Pack took a report on Feb. 8, in reference to 13 units at a storage facility on U.S. Highway 271 North having the locks cut off,” Sheriff Alan McCandless said. “Deputy Pack was able to get in contact with two of the renters who stated items were missing from their storage units.”
Assorted clothing items were taken from one unit, and numerous folding knives and a samurai sword were taken from another storage unit.
The next day, Deputy Pack went back to the storage buildings after a witness observed a red Chevrolet Suburban parked in front of them.
“The witness observed the vehicle speed away from the storage buildings at a high rate of speed, traveling north,” Sheriff McCandless said. “Locks were cut off four more of the units, but no entry had been made into any of them.”
He said tips such as this are sometimes all that is needed to make an arrest and close a case.
 
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