Two Riverhead restaurants were burglarized overnight.
Burglars forcibly entered Jerry and the Mermaid at 469 E. Main Street and Outerbanks, a mile-and-a-half away at the Indian Island golf course on Cross River Drive. The break-ins occurred within about an hour of each other early this morning.
Riverhead Town Police responded to a commercial alarm at the East Main Street seafood restaurant at 2:29 a.m. Responding officers found a door ajar and discovered that someone entered the rear covered deck portion of the establishment and then forcibly entered the main building by breaking out a south side window, according to a police press release.
Another alarm at Outerbanks drew town police to the golf course restaurant at 3:24 a.m. Responding officers found that the establishment had also been forcibly entered. Since that burglary took place on county-owned parkland, the crime scene was turned over to county police, Riverhead police said.
Riverhead Police said it was unclear what, if anything, was taken from within Jerry and the Mermaid. The investigation is ongoing and anyone who may have witnessed anything suspicious in the area at that time, or who has information regarding the crime, is asked to contact the Riverhead Police detective division at 631-727-4500 Ext 332.
No further information was immediately available from Suffolk County Police about the break-in at Outerbanks.
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