BATH — Bath police on Monday asked for help in identifying a man who stole a cash register Saturday night from the Clipper Mart on Leeman Highway.
In video released Monday, the suspect, who is described as a white man, approximately five feet, 10 inches tall, was caught on the store’s security camera entering the store between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. and ripping the cash register out of electrical cords on the store’s counter. The video can be seen at www.timesrecord.com.
Officers Ted Raedel and Jason Aucoin responded at 8 p.m. Saturday to the store at 115 Leeman Highway after a clerk — the lone employee on duty at the time — reported the theft of the cash register, Bath Police Lt. Stan Cielinski said Monday.
The clerk told police that she was in the cooler when she heard the front door ringer, which indicated someone had entered the store, according to police. A short time later she walked out to discover the cash register was missing and other items had been knocked to the ground.
Bath Police Officer Michelle Small and her police dog, Keylo, tracked the culprit to an area between the Car- Quest parking lot at 125 Leeman Highway and an old car wash. They found “a trail of cash and coin from the register” as well as other evidence Cielinski would not specify.
Police still have not identified the suspect. Investigators hope videos taken by the Clipper Mart security camera provide enough detail that someone will be able to identify the man.
Police on Monday released two videos of the suspect, the first apparently capturing the theft.
In that video, the suspect entered the store and immediately walked up to the counter, grabbed the cash register and fled the store. The suspect appeared to be wearing a tan jacket with a green collar, brown Carhartt or similar pants, and a shopping bag on his head.
Second video
A second video, which police believe was taken about 10 minutes before the other, shows the same man entering and surveying the Clipper Mart. The video showed that a man fitting the description of the suspect walked into the Clipper Mart, not wearing the jacket or shopping bag. He looked at the cash register, turned around at the end of the counter and walked out while looking at the cash register. In this video the suspect was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with a white symbol on the left side of the shirt.
Cielinski said the register is likely valued at more than $1,000. He declined to disclose the value of its contents.
Theft of more than $1,000 would result in felony charges, he said.
Police ask anyone who might have seen someone near the Clipper Mart or Car- Quest between 7:15 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday to contact the Bath Police Department Detective Division at 443-8367.
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