Providence Police Investigating Suspected Break-In at Thayer Street Business

Providence Police Investigating Suspected Break-In at Thayer Street Business

Providence police are investigating a report of a Thayer Street business being broken into on Monday. 

 

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Shortly before 5 AM on Monday, Providence police responded to Metro Mart at 221 Thayer Street for a report of a business alarm. 

Police said that upon arrival, they found the glass to the front entrance of the business shattered.

According to police, they encountered cigarettes in the business to possibly have been tampered with, reporting that it appeared inventory could have been taken. 

Police said they found a large rock in the store they believed was used in the break-in.

Detectives reached out to the store owner and are investigating. 

 

Latest on East Side 

As GoLocal reported last week, a man was reportedly assaulted during a carjacking on Thayer Street. 

It marks the latest in a number of crimes on the commercial strip adjacent to Brown University, including a large brawl that sent one man to the hospital, and two women sexually assaulted. 

Read more here.