Small Town Misfit

Chevoit, OH
Barroom burglars with strong backs and a taste for top-shelf booze have conducted a series of after-hours break-ins at 19 West Side bars since Jan. 6.

The bandits’ latest strike took place March 8. They walked off with more than $20,000 in cash and 200-plus bottles of liquor.

The take came from three Cheviot bars including Keller’s Cheviot Café, a watering hole owned by the city’s mayor, Sam Keller.

“They pried open doors and filing cabinets and took 65 bottles, including expensive stuff like Grand Marnier,” Keller said. “These guys clearly aren’t amateurs.”

Nor are they weaklings.

“My safe was bolted to the floor,” Keller said. “They just ripped up the floor and took the whole safe.”

Making off with the bar’s safe is part of the M.O. of the burglars who have hit bars in Mount Healthy, Lockland, Elmwood Place, North College Hill, Delhi and Springfield townships as well as Cincinnati’s districts 3 and 5.

“We think there are at least three bandits,” said Cheviot Police Sgt. Ed Taylor. “These safes are heavy.”

Taylor is helping coordinate the multi-jurisdictional investigation aimed at putting the barroom bandits behind bars – the steel variety.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Thanks Luann!

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