A man looking at security footage on his phone watched as a thief stole cigarettes from his Franklin County store.
Vick Sidhu says that he got a call from a security company saying that the store’s burglary alarm was activated.
Sidhu told LEX 18’s Leigh Searcy that the man walked behind the counter to steal cigarettes. Sidhu called the police. He says that the accused, Nelson Yanez, stuffed cigarette packs in his arms and then got one of the store’s trash bags to fill with cigarettes.
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“It took me aback for a second when I saw somebody here,” said Sidhu.
A police officer went to Blue’s Store, but that didn’t faze Yanez.
Sidhu says that Yanez told the officer, “go away, we are closed.”
“When the cop knocked on the window and says, ‘hey, what are you doing over here?’ He tries to tell the cop, ‘we’re closed. Go away,’,” said Sidhu.
When other officers came into the store, Yanez hid in the store’s non-working ice machine.
Sidhu believes a recently fired employee may have given Yanez a key to the store because there weren’t any broken windows or doors.
