Business owners with shops along Oakland’s Temescal Alley were greeted by shattered glass and broken store fronts Friday morning.
Overnight, several of the shops in this area were burglarized.
That includes Liz Thayer’s leather goods store, where she estimates the thieves got away with over $50,000 in merchandise.
“It means that life sucks. I’m already hustling post-pandemic trying to make it work,” Thayer said.
This isn’t the first time that stores here in the Alley have been broken into.
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In fact, it’s happened about three times just over the past year.
This time around though, they tell us that six out of the 16 shops were hit.
“We call the police so many times. The only thing they do is write notes, make a report, but nothing happens,” said Danny Paredes.
Paredes is the property manager for the alley.
He showed us security footage that captured two men breaking into the various storefronts.
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