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Vape Shop Target Of Overnight Smash-And-Grab

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) - A vape shop was broken into overnight Wednesday.

Police say the alleged burglar, Ivan Ocampo-Plascenia, had gone on a spree with a couple of area businesses.

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Ivan Ocampo-Plascencia (credit: Lakewood Police Department)

The vape shop owner says this is the third break-in at the store.

Ocampo-Plascenia was arrested a short time later after police say he broke into a Mexican restaurant three blocks down the street and stole bottles of liquor.

Police used a K9 to track him down. He'd just gotten on an RTD bus at Colfax Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard.

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Ocampo-Plascencia, 25, is in now in custody, charged with two counts of second degree burglary.

Police are looking into whether other break-ins in the area could be related to these.

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