Crime & Safety

Bungling Burglar Botches Poway Break-In

A local convenience store is out two cash registers — but not out any cash — thanks to a burglar.

Deputies are searching for a burglar who broke into a Poway convenience store around 3 a.m. Thursday and left with empty cash registers, Channel 10News reported.

According to the news station, deputies believe the bungling burglar originally tried to access the Easy Mile store, located at the 12000 block of Scripps Poway Parkway, through the roof via ladder. 

10News said authorities believe the suspect then pried open the front doors to the store and fled with the empty registers.

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Investigators are looking at surveillance footage, the local station reported.


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