HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (WSMV) – A man is facing charges after the Hopkinsville Police Department (HPD) said he burglarized hemp-based products at stores in Kentucky and Tennessee.
HPD began investigating when officers responded to a burglary at Green Tree Botanical Dispensary just before 4 a.m. on May 24.
Surveillance video from the store showed the suspect, later identified as Nicholas McNeal, using a rock to enter the business before stealing multiple hemp-based products, HPD said.
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Similar incidents in Clarksville, TN, were also being investigated, so HPD began working with the Clarksville Police Department.
Together, the agencies identified McNeal, 26, as the suspect in the incident.
A search warrant was executed on McNeal’s Oak Grove home on Friday. There, officers recovered stolen products from stores in Clarksville and Hopkinsville.
HPD said they also located the clothing he was seen wearing in the surveillance videos.
McNeal was charged with third-degree burglary. HPD said Clarksville PD also has three active warrants against McNeal.
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