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Investigators hope to stop 'Nicotine Ninja' 

Jump to full article: KUSA-TV Channel 9 (Denver, CO), 2009-05-12
Author: posted by: Jeffrey Wolf written by: Chris Vanderveen

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JEFFERSON COUNTY - He comes at night, he's dressed from head to toe in black, and whenever he breaks into a gas station or convenience store he only seeks out cartons of cigarettes.

So this week investigators decided the incredibly prolific burglar needed a catchy name.

"We're calling him the Nighttime Nicotine Ninja," Jacki Kelley said with only a hint of a smile.

The spokesperson for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office hopes it will be memorable enough to help frustrated investigators all over the state catch the person or persons responsible for stealing more than $120,000 worth of cigarettes from well over 100 businesses during the last two years.

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