Elkhorn Market hit by theft of tens of thousands of dollars weeks after owner dies

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Tens of thousands of dollars worthy of merchandise was stolen from Elkhorn Market, making matters adjacent much hard for the household grieving the decease of its owner.

The Fresno County Sheriff's Office says deputies responded to the marketplace connected 3126 W. Elkhorn Ave. connected Wednesday aft receiving a study of the burglary. They accidental the suspect(s) drove distant with tens of thousands of dollars worthy of merchandise.

Security cameras captured images of a imaginable fishy vehicle: a blue, older-model pickup motortruck with a square-style body. Deputies judge the motortruck whitethorn person an extended furniture and chrome rims. They accidental the motortruck was successful the country betwixt 1 a.m. and 3:30 a.m.

According to deputies, the store was closed astatine the clip of the burglary owed to the caller decease of its owner, Harbans Singh Lehra.

Lehra was killed successful a clang adjacent the marketplace aft colliding with a large rig connected March 21. The sheriff's bureau says household members person been doing their champion to proceed operating the store during this hard time.

Anyone with accusation is asked to interaction the Fresno County Sheriff's Office astatine 559-600-3111.