Police are working on the theory that the burglars who broke into the Trincity branch of Bhagwansingh's Hardware may have been stolen items to commit other planned burglaries.
According to police reports, employees of the hardware who reported to work yesterday found several power tools, cell-phones and ransacked departments before leaving. Police could not state if cash was also stolen.
For the year there have been several break-ins where burglars have been targeting financial institutions in Central Trinidad. In those instances, burglars used power tools to cut through the roofs of buildings and in some cases the walls of adjoining buildings to gain entry and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars and in some cases entire vaults.
The most recent of their robberies took place at the Chaguanas branch of the Board of Inland Revenue. There have been other similar break-ins in the Central Division and police have called on businesses and security companies to be more vigilant when securing their property.