Burglar steals thousands from Fresno small business, owner says

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno quality salon is abruptly hopeless for a facelift.

“I felt truthful violated,” proprietor Kathy Xiong said.

A antheral broke into KVX Bridal & Beauty astatine 4 a.m. Sunday.

Xiong’s Ring camera captured the full event. It shows him throwing a stone astatine the solid doorway twice, shattering the glass.

He past pushed done the remaining shards and threw quality products successful a achromatic trash bag.

She says helium was wrong little than a infinitesimal earlier helium rode distant again connected his bicycle.

“There was solid each over. Just shattered into a cardinal pieces successful the beforehand and connected the level close here,” Xiong said. “This was a stone that helium used.”

Xiong says helium cleared her shelves.

“Everything that I person for sale, hairsbreadth products, constitution products, brow products… it's each gone,” Xiong said.

She says the crippled did not commencement Sunday morning, though.

Her Ring camera footage shows the aforesaid fishy riding astir connected his motorcycle for 2 days, circling the gathering and looking done the windows.

She adjacent saw him watching her astatine 10:45 p.m. Saturday nighttime erstwhile she near work.

She says helium stole thousands of dollars worthy of products: everything helium would request to beryllium a glowing bride.

“If helium were to merchantability it, I don't adjacent cognize if anybody would adjacent privation it,” Xiong said. “A batch of women don't spot to bargain these things from, you know, idiosyncratic who is not successful the industry. They would beryllium truly like, ‘this is sketchy.’”

While he may not payment from the products, she volition surely consciousness the loss.

“It's an investment, you know, for maine and my clients and my business,” Xiong said.

She says a boarded-up beforehand doorway is not the lukewarm invited she wants to connection clients, but she expects the repair measure to beryllium an costly one.

“I'm frightened to bring immoderate of my clients here. I don't cognize erstwhile my doorway volition beryllium replaced,” Xiong said. “I conscionable consciousness truthful violated. I don't cognize if this is going to hap again.”

Fresno constabulary arrived astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic reporters connected Tuesday. They say, adjacent though nary 1 was hurt, this was not a victimless crime.

“Burglary is thing that we analyse thoroughly, similar we bash with immoderate crime,” Sgt. Diana Vega said.

Investigators are inactive searching for the bicycle burglar.

In the meantime, Xiong says she volition fortify her information strategy truthful helium ne'er comes back.