Suspicious activity investigated at tobacco store parking lot, Essex MD


Police investigated a suspicious white pickup truck parked near Essex Tobacco at Eastern Blvd. A person dressed in black was seen at the scene. After inquiry, officers concluded the individual was likely cleaning the parking lot. No crime was confirmed.
Audio|Source: Baltimore County Municipal Police Departments
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Transcript:
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Is there a unit near Essex Tobacco, a tobacco place on right across the Middlesex Shopping Center? There's a white pickup backed into that location.
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I know it's all closed.
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Anybody near Ashtick's tobacco, Mr.
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And as they search their house, it'll be an engineer closed if that changes anybody's mind.
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I can be momentarily.
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Anyone's near Lansdown in Hollinsbury, westbound Lansdown.
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We've just got LPR hit[1] for a green Chevy Sonic, New Jersey, Boy (number withheld) Victor, Adam, Tom.
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12 all day.
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Eric, if you dressed all in black, mulling around from the business.
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This is anything near.
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Have Ryan, about an area.
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Too weird, I'm not first.
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42.
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12, 12, 8 hours over.
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126, 128 direct.
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12.0.00. Yeah, he'll be 1244.
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Definitely. That six. Is it a weight pickup truck, single cat, a ladder rack? 1464.
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I didn't see the ladder rack.
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I ended up, I'm trying to get turned around on 702.
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I got solid at the last minute.
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Where did you see that?
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It's parked in the parking lot, backed in the S.6, where the, I've got the pawn shop that's there, right next to the Bacco store.
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Info 5.
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Go ahead.
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You said Lansdown on Hollins Ferry?
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I spent on Lansdown at Hollins Ferry Road.
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Okay, ten points.
01:07
Essex, if they do come up with that vehicle, the white ford with a ladder rack, it looked like the gentleman wearing all black.
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I got him on video coming off the roof of that building about an hour prior to the burglary.
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Okay. The clearance of the 4550.
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Go ahead. I'm coming down to Plasky now.
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It was out front, you said.
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Yeah, it was right there in front of that tobacco store place.
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I've got the name Essex tobacco or something like that.
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43. Myself on 40, you're out with the vehicle on the rear.
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Just playing around with the front floors and I guess he went behind it for some reason.
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27. You can send me down those relays.
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Tap 4.456. 104.
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He's out to the rear.
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Oh.
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I'm on, Rossville.
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I'll be there, I'm playing close-up.
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40, this one appears to get the light sweep or the guy who cleans the lot for the whole complex.
Police codes explained
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[1]
LPR hit: License Plate Reader alert for a flagged plate
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Location mentioned:
Near Eastern Blvd, Essex, MD 21221
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