Costco’s bulk merchandise helps block burglary in The Woodlands

Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office detectives are looking for at least one person who, on Tuesday morning, drove a stolen day care van into the new Costco Wholesale store in The Woodlands.

Customers and employees of Costco walk by a roll up door that was hit by a van during an attempted break-in on Tuesday morning. MCSO detectives are searching for those responsible for the more than $5,000 in damage to the building.

The store, located at the intersection of Interstate 45 and Texas 242, has been open for only two months and now has roughly $5,000 in damages to its two steel rolling doors. Fortunately for Costco, there was merchandise stacked near the doors rammed into by the driver of the stolen day care van.

“They had piles of merchandise behind the doors, which actually ended up blocking the doors from caving in,” MCSO Lt. Brady Fitzgerald said

The van, which showed to be owned by Foxwood Prep School child care facility in Humble, was found with the engine still running when deputies arrived at the scene about 3:30 a.m. click here for complete story