Slidell police are asking the community for help in finding three men who allegedly broke into two stores Saturday night and got away with an estimated $15,000 worth of cigarettes.
According to Slidell police, an alarm went off at Jack’s Beverage on Old Spanish Trail around 5 a.m. Saturday.
  
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The store owner showed up, did an inventory and told police that he was missing between 150 and 200 cartons of cigarettes.
The store’s surveillance video showed three men breaking the glass in the front door with a large rock. The three went into the store and stole the cigarettes, putting the carton into large garbage bags. The video was only able to get clear pictures of two of the suspects.
The third suspect’s face cannot be seen, but he was wearing a dark blue hooded sweatshirt with the hood tied tightly around his face. The sweatshirt has a gold emblem on the front with white writing around the emblem.
The video also shows the suspects leaving the store and getting into what appears to be a Ford pickup truck.
An hour later at 6 a.m., Slidell police got a call from the manager of the Winn-Dixie on Brownswitch Road.
He told police that when he went to open the store, he found the front glass door shattered.
He went inside and did an inventory and found that 140 cartons of cigarettes and several bottles of alcohol had been stolen.
Anyone with information on the burglars or the alleged burglaries can call Detective Ralph Morel at 646-4353 or his cell phone at 290-3259.
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