Snow helps police catch liquor store burglary suspects

The overnight snowstorm helped police in Dalton catch two teenagers suspected in a smash-and-grab burglary of a northwest Georgia liquor store.

According to Dalton police spokesman Bruce Frazier, officers responding to a 4 a.m. alarm call at Cox’s Liquor Store on East Walnut Avenue found the front door glass broken out, and footprints in the snow leading to a gap in the tree line behind the store.

Officers followed the footprints to an apartment in a nearby complex and when they knocked on the door, they found Sebastian Love, 19, with a backpack containing five bottles of liquor matching those missing from the store, Frazier said.

Love and another teen, 19-year-old Adrian Lynn Estrada, were arrested and charged with burglary, theft by taking and criminal damage to property.