Two Beverly residents are being held on $10,000 cash bail at Rockingham County House of Correction in New Hampshire on charges of the attempted burglary of Richdale Convenience Store yesterday, as well as involvement in an earlier theft at a Peabody liquor store.
According to Detective Sgt. Scott Richards of the Peabody Police Department, smart thinking and good police work on the part of Seabrook, N.H., officers has provided Peabody police with the break they needed in the investigation of burglary of the Lowe Mart Liquor Store on Lowell Street.
Jason Powers, 29, of 90 Rantoul St., Beverly, is charged with attempt to commit burglary, receiving stolen property and loitering, while his companion, Andrea Putnam, 28, of the same address, is charged with attempt to commit burglary, receiving stolen property and being in possession of an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle.
Chase said Powers was on probation for aiding and abetting in a bank robbery.
About 4 a.m. yesterday, while on patrol, Seabrook officer Chet Felch noticed a suspicious vehicle parked at Richdale Convenience Store on Lafayette Road (Route 1), according to Seabrook Detective Donald Chase. Felch stopped to investigate and found a man standing in front of the closed store with a crowbar in his hands. When Felch had a woman get out of the car, a beer can fell out, Chase said.
Felch arrested Powers and charged him initially with loitering, and Putnam, charging her with having an open container of alcohol in a vehicle.
Once back at the station, as officers inventoried the car, Chase said they found a cash register with evidence it came from a store in Peabody. A call to the Peabody Police Department indicated the register may be the one stolen from a liquor store earlier yesterday morning, Chase said.
The liquor store burglary took place about 90 minutes before Seabrook police arrested the two suspects.
Chase said local police then had evidence to charge both individuals with attempted burglary at Richdale and receiving stolen property from the burglary of Lowe Mart Liquor Store.
"I think it was a heads-up move on the part of the Seabrook police to check out the cash register they found in the car and call us with what they found," Richards said yesterday.
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