Video shows burglars ransacking ice cream shop in Playa Vista shopping center

Burglars hit Runway Playa Vista purchasing heart in a single day, ransacking a number of outlets, together with Hopdoddy Burger Bar, SOL Mexican Cocina and N’ice Cream.  

Video of the break-in at N’ice Cream exhibits two individuals slipping into the entrance door after busting by means of the glass.  

The suspects, each carrying hoodies and face masks, have been drilling into the store’s protected inside minutes. In addition they rifled by means of the counter earlier than slipping out of the ice cream retailer undetected.  

“I’m making an attempt to open up as common, I see that the glass right here was truly popped open,” Jose Cruz Santiago, who manages N’ice Cream, informed KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw. “I test round and see that all the pieces is trashed, on the ground and so they acquired into the protected.”  

Santiago reported the housebreaking Thursday morning after which realized that a number of different companies had additionally been burglarized.  

“They’d their window smashed and so they had all the pieces ransacked by means of too,” Santiago stated. “It’s a pleasant little neighborhood, you realize. You simply wouldn’t count on this.” 

The housebreaking suspects acquired away with about $4,000 from the protected and the register at N’ice Cream, a loss that Santiago stated might not look like a lot however is a significant loss for a enterprise already hurting.  

“It’s fairly disgusting as a result of we’re a small enterprise, you realize. We’re not a type of huge chains, like Starbucks or one thing, the place particularly throughout Christmas time, we’re actually sluggish. We’re an ice cream retailer. We’re simply actually sluggish, so that they’re taking all of that. It’s simply actually unhappy,” he stated.  

These kind of burglaries proceed to occur everywhere in the southland and enterprise house owners are fed up. They hope by sharing footage of the break-ins, it’ll finally result in arrests.  

“We’re making an attempt to supply for these individuals right here and make them pleased. It’s referred to as N’ice Cream. So, we wish individuals to be pleased after which we’ve this. It simply makes us unhappy,” Santiago stated.