Let's Go to the Tape -- Or Not

Usually, store security tapes help catch criminals. But they aren't a very good tool when they don't work. That's what happened at a local store that was the victim of a thief this week. As we told you earlier in the week, someone had gone to the Village Market and conned the clerk out of 3 cartons of Newport cigarettes. When a detective went to the store yesterday to check their tape, he found either the tape was damaged after it was recorded or it simply didn't record correctly. Either way, there's no recording of the event, and no one in the store at the time recognized the thief. The case has been closed for a lack of evidence.