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Posted: 3:06 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, 2013
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By Rick McCrabb
Staff Writer
MIDDLETOWN —
Someone broke into Fricker’s, 4810 Roosevelt Blvd., early Sunday morning and stole two flat-screen TVs, valued at $1,600, and pried open the restaurant’s Ohio Lottery machines and video games, according to Middletown police.
The restaurant’s general manager told police that when he arrived at 9 a.m. Sunday, he found the back door slightly open. He closed the business at 3:15 a.m. and set the alarm, he told police. Police couldn’t find any signs of forced entry on any of the windows and doors.
Police said it appeared someone had been inside the restaurant for an “extended period of time.”
Seven of the TVs had been removed off the walls and two were missing, the general manager told police. All of the Ohio Lottery machines were pried open, but a lottery official arrived and told police nothing was missing from the machines.
All of the paddocks on the video games had been cut off. It was unknown how much money was taken from the games.
In the electrical room, police discovered that all the wiring to the alarm had been ripped off the wall. The alarm company said the alarm was set at 3:15 a.m.
The general manager told police there are no surveillance cameras inside or outside Fricker’s. The main office door had been pried open and there was heavy damage to the wooden counter and the safe had been moved and knocked over, police said. Someone had attempted to saw through the safe with an electric saw, police said. The general manager said $60 in cash was missing from the petty cash box.
Police were able to remove finger and foot prints from several locations throughout the restaurant.
Police checked with LaRosa’s, a nearby business, to see if there was footage of Fricker’s, but there was not.
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