Police Log: Break-in at a Local Gas Station

Tuesday, Sep. 7, 4:23 a.m. – Winchester Police were called to Cambridge Street at the Hess Station where a newspaper deliveryman was dropping off papers. He told police that when he arrived at the station, the window was broken and the store was in disarray.

The officer noticed a rock that apparently was thrown through the store window. The soda display was overturned and a shelf of Newport cigarettes and Marlboro Red cigarettes were stolen.

The owner of the station brought police to the back room to view the security tape. At 12:11 a.m. a black man wearing a long, dark, hooded jacket, through a rock through the store window. He then knocked over the soda case and the officers noticed he was carrying a large white laundry bag. He hopped the counter took about 40-50 cigarette boxes and left.

Tuesday, Sep. 7, 4:36 p.m. – Police arrived at Park Avenue where a man informed them that his car had been broken into. His unlocked Honda Pilot had a GPS system taken from it last week.

Tuesday, Sep. 7, 8:40 p.m. – Winchester Police were called to Highland Avenue and the Winchester Hospital. The officer met the victim in the blood lab where she informed police that a recent patient had stolen two wallets from her pocketbook.

After getting blood work done, the patient wandered into the employee-only area. He walked to the back of the room, sat down at a desk, which was concealed from the rest of the room and it also happened to be the victim's. She had left her pocketbook on top of the desk.

Two other employees who saw the man walk in said he looked suspicious and asked if he needed anything. He said he was dizzy from getting his blood drawn and needed to sit down.

The officer had the nurse call her credit card companies to cancel the cards. She informed the officer that one of her cards had been used at 9 p.m. in the amount of $340.