Chicopee and Springfield police are investigating two similar break ins minutes apart.
SPRINGFIELD— Police in two cities are looking at security system tapes trying to identify suspects in two very similar break ins Sunday morning.Springfield Police Lt. Henry Gagnon said two men smashed a window in the closed Citgo convenience store at 1119 Boston Road at 12:40 a.m., grabbed as many cartons of cigarettes and boxes of cigars as they could in a short period of time, then fled the store. By the time police arrived, the burglars had fled the area.
Twenty minutes later, the Basics Plus convenience store at 190 East St. in Chicopee was also broken into, Chicopee Police Sgt. Daniel Major said. Again, two men wearing hooded sweat shirts and blue jeans, and carrying plastic bags, smashed a window to gain access into the store and scooped up cartons of cigarettes and cigars, then fled.
Police are searching for a blue car they believe may be connected to the break ins
Major said detectives from Springfield viewed tapes from the East Street robbery.