SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – A San Francisco store employee is shaken up after armed robbers barged into her retailer and took money from the money register, workers and an ATM.
Monday morning’s armed theft occurred at Comfortable Donuts in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood. Nobody was damage, however the store’s proprietor is now contemplating some adjustments in response to the crime.
Comfortable Donuts has cameras inside that captured the terrifying moments when workers acquired robbed at gunpoint. The donut store is open 24 hours, however the supervisor says they’re contemplating altering that as a result of workers don’t really feel secure anymore.
Safety video reveals one man within the kitchen. The opposite hopped over-the-counter and started demanding cash. It occurred round 5:30 a.m. on the retailer’s location on twenty fourth Avenue and Church Avenue.
The store supervisor, Ratha Vann, says she’s labored for this firm for 20 years and that is the primary time one thing like this has occurred.
“We’ve by no means seen this earlier than. So we so scared,” she stated.
The thieves stole cash from the money register and grabbed the store’s ATM.
The three workers stayed out of the suspects’ means and gave them the cash. One of many males even stole cash from the pockets of the baker.
“He took from his pocket,” Vann stated. “I stated, ‘How a lot you misplaced?’ He stated ‘$80 {dollars}.’”
Vann says the thieves stole round $1,500 {dollars}. Fortunately nobody acquired damage, however Vann says they’re very shaken up.
David Burke is a public security liaison for the San Francisco Police Division. He stopped by Comfortable Donuts to examine on the supervisor.
“That is fairly brazen,” he stated. “That is an armed theft. Very scary, having weapons pointed at you is not any joke. Very critical.”
Burke says that just lately there’s been a serious spike in ATM thefts.
“They take them to a different location and break into them later. They aren’t damaged in on-site,” he stated. “However we now have made a number of arrests in these instances. However there may be undoubtedly an uptick of ATM thefts at small companies.”
San Francisco police are nonetheless investigating the case and no arrests have been made.
KRON4 spoke to a couple different companies within the space. Phrase has unfold concerning the armed theft and it’s made some enterprise house owners involved. One stated they’re planning to eliminate their ATM so that they don’t get focused.
