BY RYAN O’CONNOR

Bow police didn’t wait long to apprehend three suspected burglars and recover three motorcycles that were stolen from a Route 3A business.

Extreme Machines, near the intersection of Route 3A and Robinson Road, was broken into between the hours of 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 24, and 3 a.m. on Friday, May 25.

The suspects allegedly entered the building by climbing over a barbed wire fence and breaking through a Plexiglas panel on an overhead door, said Lt. Dave Girard.

Receiving the reported burglary around 8 a.m. on the May 25, Bow police, using all-terrain vehicles, were able to track the motorcycles to a nearby sandpit and forested area.

The suspects were found beforehand, after reports of three males acting in a disorderly manner came in around 10 a.m. that morning.

Officer John MacLennan, noticing one of the suspects was shirtless, deducted a shirt left at the burglary scene may connect the three men to the burglary. He also noticed shoe prints at the crime scene may have been similar to the soles of the suspects’ footwear.

Though the men were originally taken in on disorderly conduct charges, police were able to recover the stolen motorcycles – one crashed into a barrier at a nearby sandpit, including blood – and connect other evidence to the suspects, along with more shoe prints consistent with one of the men, who was also limping.

“Certainly a lot of circumstances came together to formulate probable cause, and before they were released on disorderly conduct we felt we had enough to go forward with charging them in the burglary,” said Girard. “I give a lot of credit to officer MacLennan, who had enough sense to make a mental note of the footwear and footprints at crime scene.”

Those arrested and charged with burglary include Thomas Pillsbury, 17, of Loudon Road, Concord; Peter Mackey, 19, of 69 Main St., Pittsfield; and Michael Grover, 18, of 70 Mapleton St., Manchester.

Each was arraigned in Concord District on Tuesday, May 29, and bail has been set as follows: Pillsbury, $20,000 cash; Mackey, $22,500 cash; and Grover, $10,000 cash.