Small businesses targeted in string of burglaries involving vehicles across Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno baccy warehouse became the latest concern to beryllium targeted successful a drawstring of smash-and-grab burglaries aboriginal Monday morning.

Just aft 4 am, Fresno constabulary were called to Pontiac Way adjacent Ann Avenue aft 8 thieves broke into OK Sales baccy warehouse.

"Some of the surveillance video that we person reviewed truthful acold shows a achromatic Lexus and a Dodge Charger astatine the successful location," assistance Fresno Police Sgt. Diana Trueba-Vega.

The probe besides shows done the video that was observed that 1 of the vehicles rammed the obstruction astatine that location, astatine that business. Several subjects and exited the vehicles, went wrong the business, and grabbed boxes."

Surveillance shows the burglars with semi-automatic handguns, grabbing boxes filled with cigarettes.

Trueba-Vega said the Lexus had a Bay Area licence plate.

"Our detectives grip these cases similar homicides. They look astatine everything, they look astatine the surveillance, they look astatine immoderate witnesses that might've been successful the area, immoderate any carnal grounds that mightiness beryllium astatine the location," said Trueba-Vega.

This is the 2nd break-in for OK Sales.

Trueba-Vega says successful the aboriginal greeting hours of December 20th, a conveyance slammed into the rotation up doorway astatine the business.

Roughly 10 men were caught connected surveillance grabbing boxes of tobacco.

Leonard, the proprietor of the footwear retailer KICKS astatine Campus Pointe, said his concern was burglarized a small aft 2 americium connected December 23rd.

The store has been boarded up since the crime.

The Fresno State Police Department says that the video surveillance shows respective individuals moving successful and retired of KICKS for 2 to 3 minutes, grabbing merchandise.

Leonard said his store is retired of work until further announcement owed to the burglary.

"I privation to connection a situation to the city. If radical are capable to archer me, due to the fact that idiosyncratic retired determination knows. Whether it's a household subordinate oregon a person oregon conscionable overheard. If idiosyncratic knows who's doing these break-ins, I'm consenting to situation the county, and if they bring them Information in, man, I'll springiness them a brace of shoes each month," said Leonard.

Detectives are inactive trying to find if the burglaries involving vehicles are related.

Action News did scope retired to the proprietor of OK Sales. He declined our petition for comment.

Detectives promote anyone with accusation connected either burglary to scope retired to police.

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