Salem police say a northeast resale shop burglary has already led to a big recovery of stolen merchandise, a storage unit search and one man in custody after tens of thousands of dollars in goods went missing.
The department reports that officers tracked down a large amount of allegedly stolen items and returned some of them to the shop owner, after serving a search warrant on a storage unit tied to the case. According to police, the business told investigators it was out more than $60,000 in merchandise.
Per a media release from the Salem Police Department, the case began June 2 when a community services officer responded to a reported burglary at More Flips on the 1700 block of Center Street NE. The shop reported that over $60,000 in merchandise was missing…