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Man in custody is suspect in restaurant break-ins, police say
My Dayton Daily News reporting colleague Jeremy Kelley co-authored this story.
Kettering police said Friday that a man arrested in Dayton Thursday night on drug charges is a suspect in the rash of restaurant break-ins earlier this week.
Jason Hurst, 36, has been charged with possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia after Dayton police arrested him and 40-year-old Stephanie Jones at a motel at 1728 Stanley Ave. Thursday night. Crack-cocaine pipes and a substance believed to be crack cocaine were found in the motel room where the two were arrested, according to Dayton police reports.
Hurst has not been charged in connection with the restaurant break-ins, but investigators were seeking a search warrant Friday afternoon to search a maroon mini-van that Jones told Dayton police belonged to her and which investigators believe may be tied to the restaurant break-ins, according to Dayton Police reports and Kettering Police Department spokesman Michael Burke.
Dayton police officers recovered two safes in an alley behind 1255 Deeds Ave. Thursday night, both of which had been pried open, according to Dayton police reports. One of the safes contained paperwork from Mamma DiSalvo’s and is believed to be the safe stolen Tuesday night by two thieves who were caught on surveillance camera and who smashed through the restaurant’s front door.
The incident was nearly identical to break-ins at four other Kettering restaurants along Wilmington Pike in a 90-minute period Tuesday night. El Meson in West Carrollton also was broken into in a similar incident the same evening, and police also are investigating whether similar break-ins in Troy are related.
Burke said police are still searching for the second suspect, believed to be a male, who is shown in the surveillance video from the Mamma DiSalvo’s break-in.
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