When police arrived, they spoke with an employee who said someone broke into the business around 10 p.m. on Easter Sunday.
“(The employee) stated he arrived for work and noticed the front sheet metal door had been pried open,” the report says.
The employee told officers he reviewed the camera footage, which caught the suspect breaking in.
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“The suspect used a board to make and pry open a hole into the sheet metal door to be able to gain entry into the building,” the report says.
According to the report, the suspect stole a black tool bag, a Milwaukee toolbox and a cardboard box with miscellaneous tools in it.
The suspect is described as a man in his 40s or 50s who was wearing a black jacket, gray hoodie and black pants, the report says.
No other suspect or witness information was available.
Officers were later dispatched around 10 a.m. on Monday to a parking lot in the 1200 block of North Limestone Street in reference to a food truck being broken into, according to a second Springfield police report.
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When police arrived, the owner of the food truck, New Orleans Grill, said the suspect(s) broke in sometime overnight.
“The owner stated that unknown suspect(s) broke the lock clasp that was screwed to the wall of the food truck,” the report says. “Suspect(s) gained entry into the food truck and took a jar with U.S. currency.”
The owner told officers this was the third time someone has broken into her food truck, the report says.
No suspect or witness information was available.
Springfield police continue their investigations into these incidents.
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