Gas thief caught on surveillance video carrying buckets of gas from cars at Hazel Crest dealership

The primary hit occurred early Monday morning in accordance with I-80 Auto Group proprietor Alan Takruri.

“We have been mad you already know, we have been mad,” Takruri stated. “We don’t like the best way they do it, it is loopy.”

Safety footage reveals a person getting into the lot at 167th St. & Kedzie drilling holes in automotive gasoline tanks and carrying buckets away of gasoline.

Gasoline is seen leaking from this truck after the person left with buckets in hand.

“He was concentrating on the large vehicles as a result of they’re increased and he can use the bucket beneath,” stated Takruri.

Alan Takruri says he filed a police report on Wednesday after the second time it occurred. However he nonetheless hasn’t had any luck discovering nor stopping the particular person accountable.

“I really feel sympathy for any person risking his life only for $10 or $20 of gasoline. That is unhealthy,” stated Takruri.

Takruri stated he acknowledges that gasoline costs are surging proper now and hurting everybody’s backside greenback.

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“Gasoline is pricey however nonetheless he can’t injury vehicles for $10. That prices us perhaps hundreds of {dollars} simply to restore them,” Takruri stated.

The injury to restore his automobiles is costing his enterprise hundreds of {dollars}, he stated.

Regardless of having a number of surveillance cameras already, they plan on including extra.

“We need to hold our enterprise rolling with no issues,” stated Takruri.