Overview
- Officers responded around 5:40 a.m. Sunday to a commercial burglary alarm on the 700 block of Frederick Road and found evidence of a break-in, then learned several nearby businesses were also hit.
- Security video at Blue Iris Flowers showed two young men breaking in around 5 a.m., with about $100 taken from the top tray of the cash register, the owner said.
- Police said it initially appears the same people committed multiple incidents, with the Baltimore County Burglary Unit working to confirm the links.
- Businesses named by local reporting include El Guapo, Pizza Mania USA, Franco's Italian Bistro, Taneydown Deli & Sandwich Shoppe, and Blue Iris Flowers.
- Baltimore County Councilman and county executive candidate Pat Young surveyed damage and called the burglaries “brazen,” while CBS noted a separate set of Saturday break-ins in the Rosedale area under investigation.