Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two men suspected of being involved in a string of cell phone store burglaries in the East Bay.
On Wednesday, investigators released surveillance video of the two burglars in action.
In the video, you see two men wearing hooded sweat tops enter the AT&T Store in the Clayton Valley shopping center in Concord. The video was recorded back on Oct. 2.
The same two men are suspected of being involved in three cellphone store burglaries that day. After the burglary at the AT&T Store, the hooded men walked right next door to the Sprint Store and allegedly took cellphones and tablets from there as well.
Unlike other snatch-and-grab cellphone store burglaries, where the suspects run into the store and grab electronics and a fast pace, the two seemed to take their time, almost as if they were shopping or looking for specific items to steal.
In fact, a witness told KRON4 the two men were looking for the most expensive items in the store but AT&T no longer put them out on display.
“They went around the corner and put their hoods up, so I called the cops,” a witness said.
Concord police say the same two hooded men are likely responsible for a burglary minutes later at the Verizon Store in the Oak Grove Plaza. The AT&T Store in Pleasant Hill is the location of the fourth burglary.
Pleasant Hill police say they are checking to see if the two men are connected to that incident in addition to three separate cell phone stores targeted by burglars in Pleasant Hill in the month of September.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Concord or Pleasant Hill police.