TEMPE, AZ — A stolen car crashed through the front door of a Tempe smoke shop early Sunday morning, with thieves targeting high-demand vapes before fleeing in a separate vehicle.
Around 3 a.m., Tempe police say the driver of a stolen red Scion from Phoenix drove through the front entrance of the smoke shop located at Baseline and Mill. Security footage shows a masked suspect filling what appears to be an ice chest with hundreds of dollars worth of vapes and other merchandise.
The video captures audio of someone honking urgently from the parking lot while the thief makes multiple trips to fill the cooler with inventory. Police say the suspect then drove off in a different car, abandoning the stolen Scion inside the damaged store as alarms sounded.
“They focused on this section mostly, so they got a bunch of vapes,” said owner Fadi Sayed…