( Mason ) ** Update 12-11-12, 5:30pm ** Investigators say the break in of two dozen businesses between December 3 and 11 may be related. Several departments came together Tuesday after several businesses were broken into Tuesday morning. Police are hoping the photos released lead them to a suspect.

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Police officers and detectives from several agencies are gatheirng today to discuss more than a dozen stores that were hit by thieves early Tuesday morning. In most of the cases, the suspects broke out windows with landscape stones and then stole the cash register. 

Investigators say stores were hit in Lebanon and Middletown, too. More information is expected to be released later today.