MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - New police reports say the same morning two Ocean Boulevard hotels were held up, three businesses along Kings Highway in Myrtle Beach were also robbed.
Wings Beachwear at 301 South Kings Highway, the adjoining Dunkin Doughnuts at 301 South Kings Highway, and the Taco Bell at 1307 North Kings Highway were burglarized early Saturday morning, according to police reports.
In both cases, police say suspects broke into the businesses by forcing open a drive thru window with a crowbar.
Police were first called out to Dunkin Doughnuts at 3 a.m. Saturday. The report says a delivery driver came into the business and noticed items on the floor, then called police. The Dunkin Doughnuts and Wings are separated by a false wall and a gate that partitions the common area of the store.
Video surveillance showed two suspects wearing hoodies and ski masks. The report says it seems the suspects knew about the video cameras, because the two knelt down and crawled through the building. They then split up, and tried to force open registers on the counters and safe. We don't know how much money was taken.
The first suspect wore a red hoodie, jeans, white sneakers, gloves and a white ski mask. The second suspect wore a black hoodie, khaki jeans, dark sneakers, white gloves and a ski mask.
Saturday morning around 8:30 an employee at the adjacent Wings came in and noticed coins from an open safe and called police. They were then told officers were at the Dunkin Donuts at that address had been burglarized earlier in the night.
Security surveillance from the beachwear store showed one male crawling across the floor of the store and removing items from the safe.
The suspect appeared to be wearing a red sweatshirt, blue jeans, white sneakers, light colored gloves and a white mask over his face in the video. The time on the video showed the male in the store at 2:18 a.m. but the employee told police the time was 36 minutes fast. The suspect was in the store around 1:42 a.m.
In a similar scenario to the Dunkin Doughnuts, a Taco Bell was also reported robbed Saturday.
Police were called out to the fast food restaurant that had been broken into by a drive thru window, the report says. It also says cash registers at the front counter and window were damaged but nothing was taken.
According to the report, police viewed video surveillance that showed two people breaking in. The first suspect forced entry into the business using a crowbar to break the drive-thru window shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday.
The suspect is seen leaving and returning minutes later. They then leave and return a third time around 3:45 a.m. This time the suspect is described as possibly wearing glasses, with another suspect, who is seen talking on his cell phone.
The report details both suspects are seen pacing through the store before exiting through the drive-thru window. Before the second of the two leaves the Taco Bell drive through he looks at the surveillance camera and breaks.
From this surveillance video, the two suspects in the Taco Bell burglary wore ski masks. One of the two suspects wore a light colored hooded sweatshirt and tennis shoes. The other suspect was wearing a sweatshirt with an undistinguishable symbol on the back, but with the number '1997.'
