Five Thieves Rob AT&T Store Thursday Night

Five men robbed the in Montgomery Township on Garden Golf Boulevard Thursday night of more than $5,000 worth of smartphones and accessories from a store display.

Police said five black males of varying descriptions, ranging in age from 17 to 22, took nine items from the store at closing time at around 9 p.m. and fled on foot toward the Noboru Restaurant.

Montgomery Township K-9 units tracked the suspects, but it was determined they fled in an anwaiting vehicle, police said.

Montgomery Township Deputy Chief Scott Bendig said the males wore hooded sweatshirts to cover thier faces.

Items stolen included iPads and iPhones. The cheapest item stolen was an LG 4G phone valued at $500.

"It was a distraction type of thing," Bendig said. "One of them asked questions about the phones. They left, and came  back in at closing time and did a grab and run."

There were no weapons displayed and no injuries, Bendig said.

Police are looking at video surveillance of the incident.

Bendig said the serial numbers for the stolen items were entered in the CLEAN/National Crime Information Center database.

Bendig said if police were to obtain a smartphone, they can enter the serial number in the database, which would notify them of the item being a stolen item.

"They would see it was stolen in Montgomery Township, and then we can work backward," Bendig said. "The thing we have to look at is if they are sold on the street or a pawn shop or they get it to somebody else. We don't know the specific intent."

The investigation is ongoing, Bendig said.

Contact Montgomery Township Police with any information at (215) 362-2300.