Briefcase with cash stolen from Xtra House

The Xtra House Shopping Center on Church Street as well as its branch on Cemetery Road seem to have more than their share of hold-ups and robberies. This time owner Vinod Chawla is reporting that a briefcase he left overnight in the Cemetery Road store was stolen and over thirty-seven thousand dollars in cash and eight thousand dollars in salary checks taken. Chawla told police the briefcase, a cellular phone, electronic equipment and liquor disappeared after a break-in sometime between ten p.m. on Friday and eight a.m. on Saturday. He says the total value of the theft is over forty-eight thousand dollars.