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Tips from the public were instrumental in a pair of arrests connected with a weekend break-in at a popular Calgary photography shop.

Postmedia has learned two suspects were taken into custody outside a northeast Calgary mall Monday afternoon, as they met with an undercover police officer who answered an online ad advertising one of the stolen cameras for sale.

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Sgt. Lee Dunbar of the city’s online stolen property team told Postmedia that detectives, acting on a tip from the public, posed as an interested buyer and reached out the person who posted the ad on the online buy-and-sell site Kijiji.

Early Saturday morning, police were called to The Camera Store on 11th Avenue S.W. for reports of an overnight break-in.

Once there, police found thieves had peeled back a security screen and smashed their way into the shop through a window, making off with more than $50,000 in high-end photography gear.