60 cartons of cigarettes reported stolen from South Fort Myers gas station

A man walked into a South Fort Myers Hess gas station Sunday afternoon and walked out with 60 cartons of cigarettes worth nearly $3,000.According to a Lee County Sheriff’s Office report:

Theresa Johnson, 56, an employee of Hess, 9281 Daniels Parkway, told deputies on Monday she counted the Marlboro Light 100s cartons of cigarettes several times and found the store was 60 cartons – 600 packs – short.

She replayed the store’s video from about 9:30 a.m. Sunday and saw a dark-skinned Hispanic or white man wearing a camouflage baseball cap, black shirt and jeans enter the store after parking his car – possibly a black BMW 3 – and go toward the employee only door.

That door was unlocked, but another interior storage room door was locked. The man pried opens the door, went to the two boxes of cigarettes, picked them up and discarded the cardboard boxes. When the clerk was busy with other boxes, the man walked to his car, put the cigarettes inside it and left.

Another Hess clerk on duty did not see anything.The cigarettes were valued at $2,927.40.