Burglars use automotive to smash approach in to Riverside smoke store

Burglars turned a automotive right into a battering ram to interrupt right into a Riverside smoke store early Friday, Aug. 9, and steal an unspecified quantity of product, the Riverside Police Department stated.

Yiareth Lopez, an worker at Cloudy Smoke Shop at 4773 Tyler St., stated instances and doorways had been broken and that there was quite a lot of damaged glass.

“They didn’t take a lot,” she stated.

The retailer nonetheless opened Friday.

Police responded to the shop round 1:30 a.m. after the proprietor known as when he noticed on surveillance photographs {that a} automotive had crashed into the constructing and that three individuals had been rummaging round and stealing, stated Officer Ryan Railsback, a police spokesman. The automotive they crashed was reported stolen, he stated.

“The suspects fled the scene in a unique car after stealing quite a few tobacco merchandise and equipment. No arrests have been made,” Railsback stated.

Lopez was crestfallen.

“We are for the neighborhood, we dwell round this neighborhood, and to have somebody from our neighborhood do that to us is heartbreaking,” she stated.