A retailer is praising the quick response of the Greenwood Police Department following a pair of weekend break-ins at his store.
“The alarm worked fine. The police response was fine. They did a great job,” said Mike Goldberg, co-owner of Conerly’s Performance Sports.
The break-ins, one early Saturday and the other early Sunday, followed a string of similar “smash-and-grab” incidents at retailers in recent months.
Shortly after thieves smashed out a front glass door on Sunday morning, police arrived and arrested five juveniles.
Goldberg later called Greenwood Acting Police Chief Ray Moore and thanked him for the officers’ response.
Goldberg said break-ins are commonplace in the Delta, but “most of the time, nobody gets caught.”
Moore said the youngsters will be charged as juveniles. As such, their names and addresses have not been released to the public.
Three of them have been linked to an April 5 break-in at Phil’s Squire Shoppe.
The men’s store was hit twice in January, and $15,000 in Polo shirts were taken. Moore said the juveniles have not been linked to those burglaries but remain suspects in those cases.
The investigation into possible links with other burglaries is ongoing, Moore said.
• Contact Bob Darden at 581-7239 or bdarden @gwcommonwealth.com.
