Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Smash-and-Grab Burglaries at Heritage's

The burglaries at the Williamstown Erial Road and Black Horse Pike stores occurred early Tuesday morning.

UPDATE on 7/31 at 3:20 p.m.: Police say the burglar, or burglars, smashed out windows to the Blackwood and Erial Heritage's stores with concrete chunks early Tuesday morning and stole cigarettes.

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Original post headline (7/31 at 9:25 a.m.): Report: Smash-and-Grab Burglary at Heritage's

Police are investigating a smash-and-grab burglary at the Heritage's store on Williamstown Erial Road, in the township's Erial section, early Tuesday morning.

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Two area Heritage's convenience stores were the scenes of smash-and-grab burglaries within about five minutes of each other at around 3 a.m. Tuesday, according to emergency communications scanner reports.

The second burglary occurred at the Erial store.

It remains unclear where the first occurred. Heritage's Dairy Stores has four stores within less than five miles of the Erial store, in Blackwood, Berlin, Washington Township and Williamstown.


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