Police say they are confident of catching the man and woman who threw a cement paver through the windows of Brumby's Bakery and the Wyalla Plaza NewsXpress just after midnight yesterday.

Kevin Farmer

THIEVES with a taste for Coke softdrink and scratch-its have hit Wyalla Plaza in the latest string of burglaries to hit Toowoomba businesses.

Police say they are confident of catching the man and woman who threw a cement paver through the windows of Brumby's Bakery and the Wyalla Plaza NewsXpress just after midnight yesterday.

The pair's haul was less than impressive, consisting of $42 in coins, 30 bottles of Coke softdrink and 20 seven-dollar scratch-its.

It's not the welcome new business owner Denise Statham was looking for. She has been in the bakery business only three weeks.

“You know I have a feeling they must have been watching throughout the day, because we were really quite busy (on Sunday),” she said.

Ms Statham arrived on the scene just after 1am and said the thieves had left hand-prints behind after jumping the counter.

One of the unwanted overnight visitors left behind a footprint on a piece of paper in the office which is expected to also assist police.

Neighbour and 10-year manager of Wyalla Plaza NewsXpress Bryan Waterson said the pair was in and out of his store in three minutes.

Security footage from the newsagent shows the male offender entering the in-store Heritage mini-bank by sliding through a 18-centimetre (seven inch) gap between plastic counter panels.

No money or other property was stolen.

Police said anyone who may have seen the pair, described as of indigenous appearance, should call the Toowoomba Criminal Investigation Branch on 4631 6344.

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