BURGLARS MAY HAVE $20,000 HAUL.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Burglars who broke into a Palmdale Boulevard cigarette shop through the roof escaped with 300 to 400 cartons of cigarettes worth $15,000 to $20,000, the manager said Monday. Sheriff's deputies said Saturday that the Smokes 4 You thieves List of Thieves. Famous
tr.v. foiled, foil·ing, foils 1. To prevent from being successful; thwart. 2. To obscure or confuse (a trail or scent) so as to evade pursuers. n. Archaic 1. by security screens and left behind dozens of nylon bags filled with cigarettes, but manager Houssam Barakat said the thieves cleaned out a storeroom. ``It's better than gold,'' Barakat said of stealing cigarettes. ``They can be dumped in an hour.'' On Monday, Barakat said the loss was still being totaled from Friday's burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. , but he estimated it at 300 to 400 cartons, worth $15,000 to $20,000, as well as about $4,500 in cash. A neighbor's son saw three people running away from the rear of the store carrying bags, he said. The intruders fled when sheriff's deputies arrived in response to a burglar BURGLAR. One who commits a burglary. (q. v.) alarm. One of the intruders cut telephone and alarm lines, but missed a backup alarm, Barakat said. A common ploy ploy n. An action calculated to frustrate an opponent or gain an advantage indirectly or deviously; a maneuver: "A typical ploy is to feign illness, procure medicine, then sell it on the black market" , he said, is to sell stolen cigarettes to bar customers. ``We got the word out to the bars that if they get any cigarettes for cheap to let us know,'' Barakat said. |
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