Burglars Take Goods Valued at $450,000
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Sheriff’s deputies were investigating Sunday the theft of $450,000 worth of merchandise from a Westlake marketing company.
Pre-printed computer checks, collectors’ stamps and at least 325 sketches and paintings were taken from M&T; Marketing on Lakefield Road about 8 p.m. Saturday, when someone pried open the company’s rear door, said Lt. Tony Ditzhazy of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.
Nobody was in the building when the thieves broke in, Ditzhazy said. Police were alerted to the break-in by an automatic burglar alarm, but the thieves had escaped by the time deputies arrived, he said.
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