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Detectives Ask For Help Identifying Trash Can Burglar

story by Jennifer Cahill

UNION CO., KY - Two burglaries, almost two weeks apart, and detectives say with your help, they can catch him.

The surveillance video is excellent quality and similarities in the two burglaries leave police to believe the same man is behind them both.

The cigarette bandit. A black male, heavy set, with glasses and very short hair breaks into the Jumpin' Jacks Market in Waverly, Kentucky, just before midnight Sunday.

"He enters the building after breaking the glass through and has a garbage can. He quickly goes behind the counter and steals several cartons of cigarettes," says Union County Sheriff's Detective, Greg Warmack.

Warmack says that garbage can the suspect uses and the clear surveillance video are the key pieces in linking this suspect to another crime.

"The same garbage can. He broke through the glass door and then filled it up with cigarettes, then fled. Very similar," Warmack says.

Ten days before the Jumpin' Jacks burglary, the South Green Tobacco Outlet was hit in Henderson. Henderson police say that may be their guy too.

"I have not seen their video. But they've seen ours, or at least a picture of ours, and they believe it's the same person," Warmack says.

In the surveillance video from that burglary, the man also has a trash can.

Police say he used it to break the window, then filled it up with more than 70 cartons of cigarettes.

Police say the identity, the trash can, and the suspect's addiction to cigarettes leads them to the same man.

Detectives are asking anyone that may recognize the man in that video to call Detective Ron Adams with the Henderson Police Department at 270-831-1295 or Detective Greg Warmack with the Union County Sheriff's Office at 270-389-1303.