One Denver business owner is voicing frustration after officers took more than an hour to respond while thieves made off with thousands of dollars in merchandise during a recent burglary.
In the early morning of August 6th, 2026, Austin Martinson was woken up by the alarm company for his marijuana store, Karmaceuticals. The store was being burglarized.
He says through his investigation and conversations with Denver police, he learned the thieves had set up cameras outside the store and had been monitoring it for a while. On the night of the burglary, the thieves first tried to get through the back door. Finding it locked with state-of-the-art locks, Martinson says they moved on to plan B.
“They tried to open the front door and couldn’t. We believe that they went on the roof and tried to get in through the roof or the AC, the HVAC units, which we’ve also had attempts there. So those are reinforced. So eventually they went through our neighbor, and I guess busted through the front window there and then busted through their wall,” said Martinson…