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Police have arrested one suspect after a store in Chaguanas was broken into and thousands of dollars in cash and items stolen early Wednesday morning.

According to reports, around midnight a tenant alerted the owner of a party supplies store along Old Southern Main Road that the premises had been broken into. The owner had earlier locked and secured the business around 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

Checks revealed that approximately $8,700 in cash, several cartons of cigarettes, a quantity of gas lighters, and Bluetooth speakers were missing.