A burglary at a Foot Locker store in West St. Paul netted thieves nearly $100,000 in merchandise, police said.
A burglar or burglars got into the store, in the Signal Hills Shopping Center on South Robert Street, in mid-January by knocking a hole in the wall of an adjoining vacant business, West St. Paul police Lt. Brian Sturgeon said.
They then spent several hours in a back room loading up shoes, clothing, hats and others goods totaling $97,000 into a vehicle or vehicles, Sturgeon said.
“When they went into the showroom floor, a motion sensor on the alarm system was tripped,” he said. “And they left after that.”
Police responded to the alarm call at 1:07 a.m. Jan. 16 and “everything was secure,” he said. “The key holder did not respond, so we weren’t able to go in at that time.”
Employees discovered the burglary after arriving for work.
Investigators are processing evidence and following up on leads, Sturgeon said. Store surveillance video was “as good as we would have liked,” he said.
Investigators are looking at the possibility the goods will be moved out of Minnesota and sold on the black market, Sturgeon said.