Police seek man in TV thefts

Monday, Sept. 10, 2007

By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer

Newton police are looking for a man they think broke into several businesses over the weekend and stole numerous flat-screen televisions before leading officers on a chase, authorities said.

Early Sunday morning, police responded to a call that the glass doors at Newton Family Physicians had been shattered and that there was a dark-colored car in the parking lot, according to a Newton Police Department press release.

A man was in the vehicle when police arrived, authorities said, and drove out of the parking lot onto U.S. 321 Business south.

The man driving the car jumped out of the car near Meadowbrook Lane, but officers lost him during a foot chase, police said.

In the car were two 32-inch flat-screen televisions that had been taken from the doctor's office, police said.

Authorities do not have the man's identity, but officials in Newton and at the Hickory Police Department think the same man may have been involved in other weekend TV thefts at the Elk's Lodge on West J Street and at Cornerstone Insurance in Newton and at a rental center on Springs Road in Hickory.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Newton police at 828-465-7430 or the Hickory police at 828-324-2060.


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