MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) - Police are looking for a masked suspect caught on surveillance video using an ax to force their way into a Connecticut military museum and steal several items.

Middletown police in a Facebook post say they responded to a burglar alarm at the Greater Middletown Military Museum on Tuesday night.

Surveillance video posted on Facebook shows a hooded and masked person swinging the ax several times at a rear door lock mechanism to break into the museum.

Museum officials say that the suspect took a replica .45 caliber automatic pistol from a Vietnam War display and did not get anything of value.

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