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Sweet Tooth Steals $700 in Candy from Dollar Store, Police Say

By Gwynne Hogan | January 26, 2017 1:38pm
 Police are looking for the thief who was captured in surveillance footage.
Police are looking for the thief who was captured in surveillance footage.
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WILLIAMSBURG — He'll be paying for it at the dentist's office.

A thief stole $700 worth of Snickers, M&M's, Hershey's chocolate, KitKat bars and Milky Ways from a local dollar store, police said.

The suspect, believed to be in his late teens, bashed in the padlock on a storage locker at the Dollar Tree, located at 28 Debevoise St. on Dec. 15 last year, loaded laundry bags with 29 cases of goodies and fled, police said.

It's unclear why investigators put out the video more than a month after the crime occurred.

Surveillance camera footage of the teen shows him leaving the scene of the crime lugging two large bags of booty, police said.

The burglar was last seen wearing a grey hoodie, white sneakers, black sweat pants and a black jacket.

A manager at the Dollar Tree couldn't immediately be reached for comment and a store worker declined to comment on the incident.

Anyone with information about the theft can call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.