Robber: He Came In Through the Bathroom Window

Steven Forest, 42, of 12 East Side, #318, Concord, was arrested Oct. 3 at the intersection of Amherst and Kirk Streets in Nashua, at approximately 12:56 a.m. in connection with a May robbery at a local convenience store involving $1,500 in stolen cigarettes, a bathroom, a backpack, and a female accomplice.

On May 20, 2013, at approximately 9:56 a.m., Nashua Police patrol officers responded to the Shell Gas Station, 346 West Hollis St., and learned that a man and woman had made off with several cartons of cigarettes, valued in excess of $1,500, from the business. 

It is alleged that Forest entered the bathroom of the business, climbed into the ceiling and then crawled over to the area of the office. Once at the office he located several cartons of cigarettes and carried them back over into the bathroom. After returning to the bathroom, he placed the cartons of cigarettes into a backpack. He then left the business and a female accomplice entered the bathroom and took the backpack. She then exited the business with the stolen cigarettes. 

Forest was charged with theft by unauthorized taking or transfer consolidation, a class A felony. 

>Read related story here, of arrest Oct. 4 of Cassandra Gurley, Forest's alleged accomplice.

Forest was released from the Nashua Police Department on $ 10,000 cash or surety bail pending his arraignment at the 9th Circuit-District Division-Nashua Court on October 15, 2013.