Free Box Break-In Yields No Leads
The Talkeetna Free Box was broken in to last week between thursday evening and Friday Morning. It is unknown at this time if anything was stolen, because all the merchandise
The Talkeetna Free Box was broken in to last week between thursday evening and Friday Morning. It is unknown at this time if anything was stolen, because all the merchandise in the free box … is free. There is no cash from the donation jar kept in the Free Box over night, but several hundred dollars worth of damage were caused to the door during the forced entry.
The perpetrators have not been identified, but the investigation is ongoing.
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