OCALA, FL - Police Department and Sheriff's Office investigators are looking into a series of break-ins that occurred early Monday morning at four businesses, all within roughly the same time frame.
Two of the burglaries were at separate Lorenzo's Kuchina locations: at the Winn-Dixie Plaza at 8400 S.W. State Road 200 and at the Quail Meadow Plaza on North Highway 27.
Also burglarized were the New China restaurant at 5400 S.W. College Road and the Lee's Nails salon at 2400 S.W. College Road.
All four businesses had their front glass doors smashed in. Stolen from the Lorenzo's on SR 200 was a cash register on the counter.
The cash register, which only held eight dollars, was found beside SR 200 at Southwest 69th Court Road around 6 a.m. by a Marion County sheriff's deputy.
The other businesses did not report anything missing or stolen.
Ocala police Cpl. Michael Diesso, who inspected New China restaurant's video surveillance footage, observed that around 1:30 a.m., a white male wearing a dark hoodie and blue jeans emerged from a Chrysler New Yorker that had pulled up to the restaurant. He smashed the glass door with a blunt object.
The male entered the store, ran to the register and fled the store after discovering it contained nothing.
A street sweeper with A-1 Lawn and Sweeper Service told Ocala police Officer Andrew Ritz that he also noticed a male dressed in dark clothing hanging around Lee's Nails shortly before it was burglarized.
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