Cotopaxi’s Fourth Street storefront in Berkeley was sitting dark and listed as temporarily closed yesterday after thieves used a pickup truck as a battering ram, crashing through the shop’s glass doors in an early morning hit and escaping with thousands of dollars in gear. Surveillance footage shows the truck backing straight through the entrance at about 1 AM, and a passerby later came across the wrecked doorway and reported the scene. When contacted, employees did not pick up the store phone, and the shop’s official online listing showed the location as closed at the time it was checked.
How police say the burglary unfolded
According to The Berkeley Scanner, Berkeley police responded around 6:30 a.m. after a passerby reported shattered glass at the…..