CLEVELAND (WJW) — When employees at Marous Brothers Construction discovered last Wednesday that someone crashed through the front gate at the company’s east side yard on Coit Road in Cleveland and that a valuable piece of heavy equipment was missing, they checked video from their surveillance cameras and it revealed that two suspects broke into the yard and took a front-end loader .
The video shows the thieves using the loader — which weighs more than 30,000 pounds and is worth an estimated $250,000 — to smash their way through the front gate.
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Marous Brothers employees said it appears the thieves have experience operating heavy equipment.
“I saw the way they operated the boom in the video and usually the first time when somebody gets into a piece of equipment and operates the boom, they usually slam it across the ground a couple of times and they go forward, backwards. They don’t know really know how to get the gears going, but in this one, it seemed like they knew what they were doing,” Braden Bilicic, a project engineer, told FOX 8 News. “They hit the gate with the front-end loader and they maneuvered pretty well to get out of here.”