Hip To Thieve Squares: Bellevue Smash-and-Grab Latest in String of Cigarette Heists

BELLEVUE, TN — A burglar busted through the front door of a Bellevue Mapco early Monday and made off with an undisclosed number of cigarettes.

Metro Police say the thief broke the glass in the door at the Mapco on Old Hickory Boulevard near Interstate 40 shortly before 5:30 a.m.

They are checking to see if the thief was captured by surveillance video.

Since the beginning of November, several convenience store robberies in Davidson County have result in cigarette theft.

• Two armed masked men robbed the Circle K on Nolensville Road November 7, making off with cash and cigarettes.
• A pair of men held up a Murfreesboro Road Marathon store November 14, stealing $80, two cigars and a carton of cigarettes.
• An Xpress Deli on Bell Road was robbed November 17— the thieves gained access through windows broken in an earlier burglary — and stole cartons of cigarettes.

Metro Police do not track cigarette theft specifically and say stealing tobacco is a fairly common modus operandi for stick-up artists.

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