Laurens City Police were kept busy yesterday with some thirty calls through the day. They included reports of Vending Machine vandalism. Officers were dispatched to a location in the 300 block of North Harper at 7:24 yesterday morning where a Coca Cola drink machine had been broken into and its cash box was stolen. At 8:38 police were dispatched to the 200 block of Hillcrest Drive where someone had broken into a Pepsi machine and taken its cash box. Officers began checking other vending machines for damage and found an attempted break-in to a Coca Cola machine at the Family Dollar on Fleming Street. While it had dents and other marks indicating someone had attempted to pry it open, it had not been entered.
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