ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Surveillance video shows a group of teens using a car to smash into an Albuquerque liquor store to help make off with thousands of dollars in alcohol.
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The break-ins happened earlier this year, with one local liquor store getting hit back to back in February and March. Captured on surveillance camera, police said that Miguel Rivera and a group of teens smashed into an Albuquerque liquor store in February and once again in March, making off with thousands of dollars of alcohol.When police got to Kelly Liquors on March 4, the storefront was destroyed. “They took about eight to ten cases of liquor,” said a store employee to police. “They’re taking bottles and all of that from the shelf.”
But that 4 a.m. in March smash-and-grab wasn’t the first time the store was hit. Video from February 17 shows a group coming in and out of the store, with the suspects seen dropping bottles as they make their way back to the car before driving off…