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Los Angeles burglars are using sledgehammers to tunnel their way into local businesses.
Early Monday morning, suspects burrowed through three businesses and six walls in a strip mall to make their way into Denny Lesser Jewelers in Chatsworth, according to Los Angeles police and Denny Lesser himself.
“I heard a loud noise in the back,” Lesser, who went into his store that he has owned for 42 years around 1:30 a.m. to do some repair work, told Fox News Digital.
He went to see what the commotion was and came face-to-face with a suspect wearing a dark hoodie, a mask and gloves sledgehammering through a wall to force his way into Lesser’s store.
Other stores in the area told FOX 11 that thieves have tried to break into their stores with similar methods.
“I feel violated, but I also feel blessed that nobody got hurt. And that’s the way I feel,” Rebecca Rotter of Cosmetic Creations Salon told the outlet. “And I’m wishing that some of these people would get prosecuted because the crime is out of control, and I’m not comfortable with that at all.”
In March of last year, burglars stole as much as $5 million in merchandise from a Beverly Hills jewelry store after forcing entry into the store with sledgehammers during the day. At least five suspects used sledgehammers to break the store’s windows on a Tuesday afternoon.
