Pineville Police & CMPD officers responded to a burglar alarm at the Dick's Sporting Goods in the Centrum shopping center on Pineville-Matthews road around 5 am today. The alarm was triggered when a suspect threw a brick through the front window of the store. When officers arrived they found suspects loading goods into a Mazda Protégé.
Five suspects fled the scene, two in the Mazda and three in a Green Ford Taurus. Officers pursued the vehicles and the Taurus crashed into a powerbox in the parking lot behind the Office Depot next door to Dick's. (R) Two suspects jumped out of the Taurus and fled the scene on foot. Police pursued the suspects but the two suspects were able to get away.
Officers also followed the other car, the Mazda protégé, but it got away. Those two suspects are still at large. Police said they recovered 10 shotguns, a rifle, a handgun (L) and a bag of tennis shoes. Police say they responded quickly to the alarm because this store was just recently robbed. Source: WCNC