Police in Hartlepol charge 48-year-old with string of charity and business burglaries
A man is facing court after being charged with a series of burglaries of businesses and charities in Hartlepool.
The 48-year-old is charged with seven counts of burglary, in connection with break-ins to commercial premises across the town between July and November this year.
They include a burglary of the Fibro Connect-TS charity shop on in the early hours of Wednesday, July 22.
He is also accused of breaking into Greggs on Belle Vue Way in the early hours of Sunday, July 26, and Morrisons on Elwick Road, in the early morning on Thursday, August 6.
More recently, he is charged with burgling The Message Trust, in Caledonian Road, Hartlepool overnight on Sunday, October 25; Hartlepool CIC at Greenbank in the early hours of October 27; Bovis House, on October 31 and National Tyers and Autocare in the early hours of November 4.
He was due before Teesside Magistrates’ Court on Thursday and will appear next at the crown court in December.