ASHTABULA —
Cash, a gun and electronics: All were stolen during the past month from businesses in downtown Ashtabula.
Now, police finally may be getting close to cracking the case.
Main Avenue business owners say the area normally is quiet and peaceful. After more than a half dozen break-ins, everyone is on edge, and police sought tips from the public. One of those tips paid off early Wednesday.
“We got a call at about 1:30 a.m. that two people were behind Roy and Ray’s,” said Lt. John Koski of the Ashtabula Police Department. “We stopped them, and they both had criminal records.”
Roy and Ray’s, a car repair shop at 5779 Main Ave., was burglarized Dec. 14, according to police reports. Owner Roy Caudill discovered his business had been burglarized when he opened the shop at about 7:20 a.m., to find a broken window, he said. An undisclosed amount of cash was missing, also.
“They first tried the front door and then the back door. They beat on it,” he said. “When they couldn’t get in, they went to the north side of the building and broke a window.”
Koski said police are questioning the suspects because “they could be our guys.”
Darrell Hamilton, co-owner of Broken Dreams Cafe, 4601 Main Ave., is offering a $500 reward for the return of his property and the arrest and conviction of the person, or persons, who broke into his restaurant last week. Someone broke into the restaurant Dec. 10 and stole about $200, plus people’s donations for the Toys for Tots campaign in Ashtabula County. A gun, a camera and a DVD recorder also were taken, Hamilton said.
The week before, Ultimate Appearance, 4702 Main Ave.; the Berean Seventh Day Adventist Church, 874 Center St.; and First Baptist Church, 4353 Park Ave., were burglarized, and undisclosed amounts of cash were stolen, according to police reports.
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