Safe Stolen From Local Zaxby's

The Goose Creek Zaxby's was the subject of a break-in last week, with the owner suggesting the theft may be part of a string of thefts targeting the chicken finger franchise.

A manager contacted police at 9:30 June 13 when she found someone had stolen the security safe. She told police that she had locked up the building the previous night. The doors were still locked when she returned in the morning and there were no signs of a robbery until she got inside and found the office door open.

A security video shows two men entering the building with what appears to be a key. The two ran to the office and dragged a security safe back across the floor, leaving the way they entered. Police note the entire break-in took approximately 90 seconds.

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The owner of the franchise told police that there was an investigation under way regarding a rash of Zaxby burglaries in South Carolina and Georgia, including a recent burglary in Charleston.

A similar case also was reported in Orangeburg in March. Sheriff's deputies responded to an alarm triggered at Zaxby's, according to The Times and Democrat. Managers arrived to find the building secure, but a safe had been stolen.

The Zaxby's theft in Goose Creek was one of two in the same night along St. James Avenue. The Ye Ole Fashioned Ice Cream & Sandwich Cafe was also burglarized, with

On March 21, an unknown suspect appeared to have used a rock to  on St. James Avenue. They then tore through the office and fled out the back door. 

Last month, unknown suspects broke a window out of the front of the  and stole cash from the cash register.