This is the fourth instance in the last month of smash-and-grabs of display cases inside stores.
LEAGUE CITY, Texas — For more than a couple weeks, we’ve been reporting on smash-and-grab robberies at display cases inside Houston-area grocery stories. It happened again on Sunday.
That one happened at a Walmart at 1701 W. FM 646 in League City at a little after 2:30 p.m. According to League City police, a man walked into the Walmart, smashed the glass at the cell phone display case and stole several phones.
Police say that during the heist, the suspect shoved an employee. That employee suffered minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital.
A photo of the suspect is above. Police say he stands between 6 feet and 6 feet, 2 inches tall. He reportedly took off in a black Ford Fusion with silver rims.
If you have any information, you’re asked to call the League City Police Department at 281-332-2566.
At this point, it isn’t clear if the incident Sunday is related to the other three robberies we’ve reported on in recent weeks, but it’s the second recent one in League City. The first was on Monday, July 29. In that case, three masked men ran into an H-E-B along the Gulf Freeway, smashed display cases and made off with jewelry. One employee was pepper sprayed in that robbery.
On July 22, suspects hit a Food Town in Pearland, smashing the display cases and making off with jewelry. In that case, a customer tried to stop the suspects with a grocery cart.
And on July 17, four men hit a jewelry store inside a Food Town on West Little York. An employee was pepper sprayed in that incident, too.