The Los Angeles Police Department's Wilshire Division today released video showing a suspect committing an early morning burglary at a gas station and making off with cartons of cigarettes.

Thanks to saggy pants, he spent the duration of the crime mooning a surveillance camera. Around 2 a.m. on March 11, the unidentified man climbed onto the roof of the gas station in the 1400 block of La Cienega Boulevard and got inside through an unlocked roof entrance, said LAPD Detective Louis Lavender.

The video shows him crawling past an open door where a gas station clerk was working, then entering a rear office where he filled trash bags with cigarette cartons and fled back through the roof entrance. The video captures a clear view of the suspect's buttocks sticking out of his loosely worn gray sweat pants as he bent over to scoop up the cigarettes.

He's described as a man in his 20s, weighing between 180 and 210 pounds, and was also wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black shoes. Anyone with information about his identity or whereabouts was asked to call Lavender at (213) 922-8252.

-City News Service

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