The owners of Solez, a recently opened shoe store in La Cañada Flintridge, say they are frustrated after getting burglarized for the second time in a week.
The first break-in happened last Thursday and the second was Monday morning. Owners say the thieves shattered a glass door to get inside and then got away with a cash register, cash, a tablet and merchandise.
“We’re going to have to close down for a few days … so obviously that’s not good for our customers,” one owner, who did not want their identity revealed, told KTLA 5’s Kimberly Cheng. “We want protection. We want to feel safe. I don’t want to have to wake up, and my neighbors don’t want to wake up at three or six in the morning worrying about their store and their property. Something they’ve worked so hard for.”
Owners say they hired private security after the first burglary, however, the thieves just struck minutes after their guard left early Monday morning.
Investigators believe the thieves arrived in two stolen cars, a red Hyundai and a silver Kia, one of which was abandoned at the scene.
No description of the suspects was available.