Eyewitnesses to an Orange video store burglary yesterday were credited with helping lead police to a man and a woman charged with the crime.

Police Director Charles Cobbertt identified the suspects as Maurice Schell, 26, of Nicholas Boulevard in Plainfield, and Cynthia Davis, 22, of Gray Street in Orange.

Schell and Davis were charged with burglary and possession of stolen property in connection with the break-in and theft at Vista Rentals on Main Street at 11:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Cobbertt said.

City Police Lt. Anthony Setaro and Officers Charles Folston and Kenneth Gernert arrested the pair at a public housing building on Wilson Place, he added.

The police said the pair apparently gained entrance to the store by prying open a rear steel gate and smashing open a glass door.

Shortly after the burglary was reported, Cobbertt continued, two eyewitnessed told police where to seek the pair.

The police director said Davis later was picked up - with one video tape recorder in her possession - outside the apartment building.

According to Cobbertt, police found Schell inside a third floor hallway of the building.

Cobbertt said both suspects were jailed and last evening were being held in the municipal lockup without bail, pending a court arraignment.

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