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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Detectives with the Fresno Police Department are searching for armed burglary suspects who targeted a baccy warehouse successful East-Central Fresno.
The burglary happened connected Monday astatine astir 4 a.m. connected Pontiac Way adjacent Chestnut and Ann avenues.
According to Fresno Police Sgt. Diane Vega, the alleged thieves acceptable disconnected a information system.
"The Fresno Police Department responded to an alarm call," she said. "Officers responded and arrived astatine the location. They confirmed that determination had been a burglary."
Vega said the burglars utilized 2 cars to interruption a gross extracurricular the warehouse, granting them entree into the building.
"Officers were capable to reappraisal surveillance video connected site, and they were capable to spot that determination was a achromatic Lexus and a Dodge Charger that arrived connected country occupied with aggregate subjects. They rammed the obstruction astatine the location," Vega said.
Once inside, officials said the thieves took aggregate boxes. Vega said detectives are inactive trying to find the outgo of everything that was stolen.
"At this point, we're trying to find precisely what was stolen, but I bash judge that astatine slightest immoderate of the spot was cigarettes, cigaret boxes," she said.
Police judge aggregate radical with weapons were progressive successful the burglary.
"There were astatine slightest respective subjects that we judge were equipped with firearms," Vega said. "I bash judge that their faces were covered."
An probe is underway to find those responsible.
"Our detectives are moving diligently, and we volition find these radical and clasp them accountable," Vega said. "With these types of cases, radical usually, particularly erstwhile there's aggregate radical similar this involved, they don't enactment quiet. [We] promote anybody that might, adjacent if they're not involved, they perceive idiosyncratic talking astir this benignant of transgression that they tin telephone the constabulary department."
