By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Police are looking for two people believed to be involved in a central Salina residential burglary on Monday.
Officers were sent to The Arena, 427 S. Broadway Boulevard, on Monday afternoon for the report of two people who had attempted to sell stolen property, Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester reported this morning. While they were enroute, the officers received an update that the two people had fled, were eastbound on Holiday Street, and had discarded some of the property they had with them.
An officer saw two people running between S. Clark Street and Montrose Street and jumping over a fence. One was wearing a gray hoodie and the other a black hoodie. According to Forrester, officers located several items along the subjects' route of travel, including a carton of grape Seneca brand cigars and four Play Station 4 video games, along with some drug paraphernalia.
The owner of The Arena told police that he was exiting his business when he saw the two people, and recognized them as being the same two who had sold him some property a few days before that turned out to be stolen. He told them that he was calling the police and they fled. The driver of the vehicle the two arrived in waited for police to arrive and turned over other property that had been left behind by the two, including a Playstation 4 and controllers, and another pack of cigars.
At approximately 11 p.m. Monday, officers were sent to the 200 block of S. Second Street for the report of a residential burglary. A 24-year-old man from Salina reported that he went to work at approximately 11 a.m. Monday. When he returned, he found things amiss in his residence and his back door open. Although he did not see any damage, the back door no longer closed correctly, Forrester noted.
The man then noticed that his PlayStation 4, several games, and a carton of grape Seneca cigars were missing. Total loss was estimated at $600.
According to Forrester, the items collected from the incident at The Arena were identified as belonging to the man on S. Second Street and were returned to him.
Both cases remain under investigation.