Inscapes is an art gallery which has gained recent popularity by being burglarized by a quartet of obvious, yet unexpected burglars…
Yup…. A family of raccoons committed the burglary…
The four (4) masked intruders were caught red-handed inside of Inscapes when a passerby had spotted them in the store’s window. The raccoons were photographed stacked on top of each other inside the Gallery after Newport police officers had responded to the scene.
Police believe that because they were so small the critters did not set off the store’s alarm. By the time that they were observed by the passerby the crafty critters were well into the process of rearranging the art. In the meanwhile the Newport Police Department had fun with the call’, posting the following on its Facebook page (which you can see by clicking here):
“Officers responded to a report of suspicious activity after midnight and cornered the suspects immediately upon entering the business. The suspects, known only by their street names of ‘Home Dog’, ‘Da Nails’, ‘Squeaky Feets’, and ‘2-Toes Todd’, attempted to elude officers on scene. After a brief scuffle, all suspects were captured without further incident or injuries. Squeaky Feets’ told officers they had no intention of taking anything from the gallery; they were only trying to straighten a few pieces of art on the wall. Tell it to the judge, ‘Feets’. Tell it to the judge.”
The Newport Police Department’s Facebook post has been shared almost 2,000 times and “Squeaky Feets” has become a semi-celebrity in his own right, drawing over 200 fans to his public Facebook page (which you can see by clicking here).
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