Break-in won't stop this Madera business: 'We're more motivated than ever'

MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Madera concern proprietor says helium is not letting a devastating break-in halt him from coming backmost bigger and better.

Madera's Valley Stealz had lone been operating for 8 months earlier it was breached into during a daring raid that saw a car smash done the beforehand windows and the thieves travel rapidly behind. That break-in successful aboriginal January mislaid the owners hundreds of dollars worthy of merchandise.

"It was similar a heartbreak, an instant bosom drop," said co-owner Shahroz Ahmad. "We're inactive equating for everything that was mislaid and stolen."

Ahmad says portion the Madera Police Department has been a immense help, helium believes California's laws connected retail theft alteration similar crimes to go each excessively common.

The Madera Police Department says it's taking each measurement imaginable to bring the thieves liable for the robbery to justice. With the passage of Prop 36 successful California, officials accidental they anticipation the thieves volition beryllium held accountable to the fullest grade of the law.

"These crimes tin enactment a store proprietor retired of concern permanently.  We’ve directed a batch of resources toward solving this crime," said Josiah Arnold with the Madera Police Department. "This lawsuit is precise overmuch astatine the forefront of our attraction close now."

Though the damages to the store cannot beryllium undone, Ahmad says the assemblage has shown thing but emotion and enactment for Valley Stealz arsenic they await the shop's return.

"We're calved and raised successful Madera and that's wherefore we wanted to instrumentality here," Ahmad. "we got hundreds of messages, showing america love, showing america enactment and asking however they tin assistance - it's conscionable bully to cognize that we person a Valley Stealz assemblage down us."

For now, Ahmad says income person been restricted to online income done societal media, but soon Valley Stealz volition beryllium backmost and amended than ever.

"When idiosyncratic takes thing distant from you that you enactment hard for, it benignant of kills," Ahmad said. "We're much motivated than ever."