Valentine bandit makes off with 6000 roses

DURHAM, N.C. - Police are searching for a criminal Cupid who sawed a hole in a wholesale florist&#39;s warehouse and made off with about 6,000 roses. <br> <br> The deed was done early Monday at Spell Wholesale Florist. <br> <br> &#34;They crawled through like a rat,&#34; co-owner Barry Spell said as he pointed out the tire-sized hole. The suspect then kicked in a wooden interior wall and headed straight for one of two walk-in coolers inside the large warehouse. <br> <br> The cooler held roses of all shapes, sizes and colors, and the thief seemed to know to take only the very best, Spell said. <br> <br> The roses may be easy to trace. Spell is the exclusive distributor within a 100-mile radius of the brands of roses called Durham for Rio and Arbusta. <br> <br> Spell and his brother, Mark, are asking residents to keep a lookout for street vendors hawking those brands. <br> <br> &#34;If they&#39;re standing there with roses, they better have a receipt,&#34; Barry Spell said. <br> <br>

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