The Pit Stop convenience store on Seven Islands Road was burglarized on May 11, according to police reports.
Deputy Christopher Lash said the clerk advised that counter cabinets near the cash register were open when she entered the store at 4 a.m. Cartons of cigarettes were missing from them.
Lash said the rear door had been pried open and the door frame damaged. No alarm was triggered.
When Lash looked at the footage captured by the closed-circuit television system at the Pit Stop, he observed a red vehicle that had also been seen on a video after a burglary at the Valero station on Newborn Road several days before.
The red vehicle enters from the east at 1:11 a.m., according to the report, as if it had come from I-20. The vehicle made a U-turn using the entrance to Bonner Street and then pulled into the parking lot and behind the store.
A Black male with a slender build and wearing a black sweatshirt with a skull and cross bones on it, black Adidas track pants with white stripes, a face mask and gloves exited the vehicle and forced his way into the store.
Lash said the man carried two full boxes of cigarette cartons out of the store to his vehicle. H returned to pilfer more cigarettes and also took scratch off lottery tickets
He got back in his car and headed back toward I-20, according to the report.
The cigarettes reportedly cost the store $1,379 and the total value of the lottery tickets was $251.
The case has been turned over to the Criminal Investigations Division.