Four businesses were hit early Friday morning in the Tatnuck Square section of Worcester, Massachusetts. Police believe the break-ins are linked.
The small businesses are left to deal not only with stolen safes and empty cash registers in some instances, but also costly damages after doors and windows were shattered.
Video footage from Tom’s Deli on Millbury Street during the early hours of Thursday morning shows the suspect smashing the glass door, unlocking it, walking in, grabbing the safe and leaving in about 30 seconds.
The owners of Crust Bake Shop said both of their locations on Main Street and West Boylston Street were broken into in a similar smash-and-grab fashion over the past five weeks, costing thousands of dollars in damages and a stolen safe.
“They’d come in and just stolen the money from Valentine’s Day and smashed the windows,” Crust Bake Shop co-owner Nathan Rossi said. “It’s…
