Thieves rammed a car into a House of Pipes tobacco and vape store in Southeast Portland on Christmas Eve, causing over $200,000 in property loss and damage, the store’s owner says.
The 21+ Tobacco and Vapor Retail Association of Oregon, which lists House of Pipes as a member, said in a statement that the break-in happened around 5:30 a.m. at the Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and 42nd Avenue location, and it marked the 14th break-in or robbery across the chain’s over two dozen stores this year, the association added.
Security camera footage shared by the association shows a group of masked and hooded people pulling into the store’s parking lot in two cars and moving picnic tables away from the glass-paneled storefront.
A driver then slammed a silver sedan through the door and windows…