A plumbing and heating business on the North Side was broken into Monday morning for the third time in two months.
The crime happened in the 4300-block of North Lincoln Avenue.
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“I can promise you we’re gonna get hit again,” Fettes Love and Sieben owner Scott Hoffman said. “This is just ridiculous.”
The most recent robbery happened Monday morning at around 4:15 a.m.
“We boarded that up and then this morning, they decided to go through this one,” Hoffman said. “I am at a loss. I really am.”
Twice, surveillance video shows the same white SUV pull up on the side.
Now, they’re fearful for their lives when they come here. It’s terrible
Thieves broke a window and stole hand tools, pipe threaders and other power tools. The owner said in all, over $100,000 worth of equipment has been stolen.
“They just want the tools. They’re expensive pieces of equipment,” he said. “They literally said, ‘Where are your sewer cameras? Where are your pro press guns? Where are your pipefitters?’ They knew exactly what they wanted.”