FRESNO, Calif. ( KSEE/KGPE ) – Six break-ins in the span of six months is the reality one Fresno small business owner says she’s facing.
The owner of Rocket Dog Brats and Brew on Shaw Avenue, Brianna Sullivan, says the costs to keep recovering from these break-ins are making it hard for her business to turn a profit.
“It’s a family-owned small business, local here to Fresno. It’s not a franchise,” Brianna Sullivan said.
Sullivan says her business is a unique joint serving gourmet sausages and sandwiches.
The location has been open for nearly a decade, and Sullivan says she took over the ownership last year. But the past few months have been filled with break-in after break-in.
She describes multiple back-to-back break-ins. From one over the Christmas holiday when they were closed, to their most recent.
“Cut my locks off my gate, and steal my beer kegs from the back. They took five or six kegs, which cost several hundred dollars,” Sullivan said.
Sullivan says there was even one break-in when the suspect just took a beer and a soda. The suspect even came back the next day to apologize.