Madison Police arrested four Madison teenagers on suspicion of conducting a series of smash-and-grab style business burglaries over the past few months.
The suspects Bennie Fleming, 19, and Jonathan Crafton, 17, and two 16-year-old boys were tentatively charged in connection with two cases and remain suspects in other cases, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain.
The group may be responsible for 25 burglaries since October, police said.
Most of the crimes follow a similar pattern in which glass doors were smashed and the thieves targeted cash registers and cigarettes, DeSpain said. Crime analysts assisted in solving the case.
The analysts were able to provide a major break in the crime spree after connecting Fleming to the crime, police said.
""The analysts were able to make the connection because one witness provided a partial license plate number for the getaway car,"" DeSpain said in a statement.
Analysts were able to come up with a police report with the completed plate and then connected it to Fleming, police said.
