UPDATE 12.40pm
POLICE have released CCTV footage as part of their investigation into break-ins at businesses at Mount Cotton, Ormeau and Holmview.
Anyone who has information should contact Policelink on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers anonymously on 1800 333 000. Quote the reference number QP1900981146.
UPDATE 10.30am
MORE than $10,000 of damage was caused to a Mount Cotton supermarket when a stolen car rammed the front doors during a break-in early about 1am on Tuesday.
A Mount Cotton IGA store manager said thieves had damaged the store's custom glass doors worth about $10,000.
The store opened in December after moving from another premises at the shopping centre on Valley Road.
The supermarket tripled in size and has become renowned for its selection of about 300 types of cheese.
More than $1000 worth of stock like flowers and food stored near the doors had to be discarded after being showered with shards of glass during the attempted break-in.
The manager said thieves had driven onto the footpath via a disability ramp and reversed into the door.
They fled when they saw a cleaner inside.
The manager said the cleaner was unharmed but staff had spent four to five hours cleaning up glass shards.
Mount Cotton IGA remains open.
EARLIER
A STOLEN car was used to ram the front glass doors of a Mount Cotton supermarket early on Tuesday.
A police spokesperson said that a stolen Pajero was used to force entry through the doors at 1.05am while another car was used as a lookout vehicle.
Three men went to go into the store but ran back to the cars when they realised that an employee was inside the store.
The spokesperson said the Pajero was used to force entry by reversing through the front glass doors at an Ormeau supermarket about 1.30am.
"Four men entered the business and stole a quantity of cash and cigarettes before fleeing in the vehicles, seen heading towards the Pacific Motorway," the spokesperson said.
The Pajero was again used to force entry through front glass doors at a newsagency at Holmview about 2am.
"A quantity of cigarettes were stolen," the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson said the vehicles were a grey 2014 Mitsubishi Pajero with Queensland registration 043 VHN and a white 2016 Hyundai i30 hatchback with Queensland registration 653 XIR and a logo reading "Story House Early Learning on the driver's side door.
They had been stolen from a house at Carina Heights sometime after 7pm on Monday.
Anyone with information should contact Policelink on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers anonymously on 1800 333 000. The QPS reference number is QP1900981146.
More to come.
