Etna Green Gas Station Burglarized Saturday
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
ETNA GREEN - County and state police are investigating a burglary Saturday night at the Clark Gas Station at the intersection of U.S. 30 and Ind. 19 in Etna Green.
An undisclosed amount of cash and merchandise was taken in the burglary, which is believed to have happened sometime after closing Saturday night.
According to the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department, the burglary was discovered around 5:20 a.m. Sunday by Deborah Robbins, who, with her husband, Keith, owns the station. Robbins notified the sheriff's department after she opened the station door Sunday morning and did not hear the beeping sound that indicates the alarm system is activated.
She told police the control panel of the alarm system was not working, and she found electronic parts scattered on the floor of the "prep" room. After using her cellular phone to call 911 and after her husband arrived, they checked the office, and found the file cabinet, cash register and safe pried open.
The door to the walk-in refrigerator also was open.
Robbins told police she locked the station's front door Saturday around 10 p.m. and activated the security system around 11 p.m. She said that between 4 and 5 p.m. a white male with sandy blond hair, between 5 feet, 5 inches, and 5 feet, 9 inches, weighing approximately 150 pounds, came in the station. He returned between 9 and 10 p.m., and she said she did not remember him leaving.
An employee of the station also reported a woman on Friday who tried to look at the cash register and who walked to the office and the back of the store near the walk-in freezer.
Frank Rhoades, of Cottage Watchman Security Systems, who installed the Clark station's alarm system, inspected the system and told investigators that, according to the evidence, the suspect had to know how to deactivate the system and how much time to do it in without being detected by the motion detector.
Police also found the phone line cut at the phone pole and the tape missing from the closed-circuit security camera.
Some evidence was taken to the Indiana State Police lab for further analysis.
The case remains under investigation by the sheriff's department and the ISP. [[In-content Ad]]
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ETNA GREEN - County and state police are investigating a burglary Saturday night at the Clark Gas Station at the intersection of U.S. 30 and Ind. 19 in Etna Green.
An undisclosed amount of cash and merchandise was taken in the burglary, which is believed to have happened sometime after closing Saturday night.
According to the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department, the burglary was discovered around 5:20 a.m. Sunday by Deborah Robbins, who, with her husband, Keith, owns the station. Robbins notified the sheriff's department after she opened the station door Sunday morning and did not hear the beeping sound that indicates the alarm system is activated.
She told police the control panel of the alarm system was not working, and she found electronic parts scattered on the floor of the "prep" room. After using her cellular phone to call 911 and after her husband arrived, they checked the office, and found the file cabinet, cash register and safe pried open.
The door to the walk-in refrigerator also was open.
Robbins told police she locked the station's front door Saturday around 10 p.m. and activated the security system around 11 p.m. She said that between 4 and 5 p.m. a white male with sandy blond hair, between 5 feet, 5 inches, and 5 feet, 9 inches, weighing approximately 150 pounds, came in the station. He returned between 9 and 10 p.m., and she said she did not remember him leaving.
An employee of the station also reported a woman on Friday who tried to look at the cash register and who walked to the office and the back of the store near the walk-in freezer.
Frank Rhoades, of Cottage Watchman Security Systems, who installed the Clark station's alarm system, inspected the system and told investigators that, according to the evidence, the suspect had to know how to deactivate the system and how much time to do it in without being detected by the motion detector.
Police also found the phone line cut at the phone pole and the tape missing from the closed-circuit security camera.
Some evidence was taken to the Indiana State Police lab for further analysis.
The case remains under investigation by the sheriff's department and the ISP. [[In-content Ad]]