BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (WBFF) — Baltimore City police and Baltimore County officers began investigating multiple commercial crimes in the Dundalk area early Saturday.
County officers found at least two damaged businesses in the 6900 block of Holabird Avenue around 3 a.m.
Baltimore County Police respond to commercial crimes in the Dundalk area on Saturday. (WBFF / Maggie Ybarra)
City police found at least one business that had been broken into in the 6600 block of Holabird Avenue around the same time frame.
A forensics investigator was sent to collect fingerprints from the door of a sandwich shop on that block in the aftermath of the melee.
A forensics investigator searches for fingerprints on the door of a Subway sandwich shop following a string of commercial crimes in the Dundalk area on Saturday. (WBFF / Maggie Ybarra)
The forensics investigator dusted for fingerprints in the area of the store’s cash register, too.
Baltimore County businesses were targeted by quick-cash criminals roughly 24 hours before the latest crime spree.
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FOX45 discovered that at least three businesses at Golden Ring Plaza in Rosedale were damaged in the early hours of Friday. The glass doors on two of those businesses had been kicked in.
FOX45 also learned that six businesses in the 1400 block of Merritt Boulevard had been targeted in a commercial burglary blitz early Friday.
The Baltimore County Police Department did not immediately provide information about the crimes impacting county store owners.
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The Baltimore Police Department issued a repeat broadcast about the crime spree overnight.
The department’s officers were instructed to pay attention to strip malls in their area.
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