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Smash And Grab Burglar Uses Crowbar, Big Red Bucket To Rip Off Pearle Vision In North Park

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A burglar smashed the glass door of a Pearle Vision office in the North Park neighborhood and then used a big red bucket to haul away armloads of eyeglasses early Tuesday morning.

Police said, around 5:30 a.m., officers responded to a burglary in progress at the store near Lincoln and Devon avenues.

When they arrived, an employee showed them surveillance video of the burglar breaking open a display case with a crowbar, and sweeping armloads of eyeglasses into a big red bucket, after breaking through the glass front door.

The suspect was wearing a black hoodie, black baseball cap and blue jeans. Detectives did not have a description of the burglar.

No one was in custody Tuesday morning.

Area North detectives were investigating.

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