Shoplifting At Southington Gas Station Leads To 2 Arrests

SOUTHINGTON, CT — Two men have been arrested following a recent shoplifting at a Cumberland Farms in Southington, police said.

At around 10:38 a.m. Friday, two cash registers, $866.21, and 11 cartons of cigarettes were taken from the gas station at 909 Queen St., Southington police said.

With each cash register valued at $500 and each cigarette carton valued at $100, a total of nearly $3,000 of goods and money was taken.

The suspects, who police said entered the store wearing white masks, were seen fleeing the gas station and getting on to I-84 east in a white Nissan Quest. Police said a member of the Greater Hartford Regional Auto Theft Task Force spotted the same car on Waverly Street in Hartford around an hour later.

The car's occupants matched a description of the suspects that Southington police gave the GHRATTF and surveillance footage from Cumberland Farms showed them at the gas station.

Officers took the suspects — 56-year-old Kevin Marshall and 54-year-old Dennis Pipkin, both of Hartford — into custody on Vine Street. Each was charged with third-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit third-degree larceny and second-degree criminal mischief, police said.

When officers searched the Nissan, they found and recovered "numerous cartons of cigarettes, plastic money clips from the cash registers and money scattered throughout the interior compartment," police said in a news release.

Marshall and Pipkin were both held on $25,000 bonds and were scheduled to appear in New Britain Superior Court on Monday.