By Charles E. Ramirez, MediaNews Group

Police are investigating early Monday break-ins in Royal Oak Township and Detroit that involved a rented box truck being crashed through a wall.

In the first incident, Michigan State Police troopers were called at about 3:25 a.m. to the Prestige Hookah & Smoke Shop on West Eight Mile at Westview Avenue in Royal Oak Township for a report of a break-in, officials said.

Troopers arrived and found that a U-Haul box truck had crashed through the front of the business’s building. They entered the building and determined the suspects had left the scene, police said.

A preliminary investigation showed three suspects used the truck to ram into the store, which was closed, and attempted to steal an automatic teller machine that was inside, authorities said.

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