Caught on Video: Thieves attempt to slam their way into San Francisco pot dispensary

SAN FRANCISCO — Hours after hashish enterprise leaders pleaded for a crackdown on a surge of crimes concentrating on their San Francisco dispensaries, a gaggle of burglars have been videotaped as they tried the newest break-in.

At round 3:20 a.m., a gaggle of masked thieves slammed a car into the roll-up door at a dispensary on thirteenth Avenue. When that proved to be unsuccessful, they turned to crowbars, sledgehammers and eventually a torch.

Unsuccessful, they moved on and had fled by the point police arrived. Their closely broken car was recovered on Van Ness Ave.

The housebreaking was simply the newest concentrating on an area dispensary. On Thursday, dispensary house owners gathered to lift the alarm over the latest uptick in burglaries, thefts and robberies throughout the town. 

The leaders known as on metropolis officers to extend police presence and responsiveness to dispensary thefts inside San Francisco.

“All I dreamed of was having a enterprise in San Francisco,” mentioned Reese Benton, proprietor of the poshgreen dispensary. “Now I’ve a enterprise, however I’ve no safety. I pay taxes like everybody else. I want the safety like everybody else.”

“”My retailer was burglarized, and we weren’t there, thank God, however it was heartbreaking,” she continued.

The leaders say the way of the thefts has them satisfied the burglars have inside info.

“Anyone goes to get harm for actual,” mentioned Sean Richards, proprietor of Burners on Haight. “Whether or not it is on our facet or the opposite facet. This has to cease.”

At 3:20am, a number of people have been caught on video making an attempt to interrupt right into a dispensary at seventieth thirteenth road in San Fransisco. Whereas I used to be ready at a lightweight on harrison and thirteenth road, I had heard a loud crash then seen a car again right into a roll up door. A number of suspects then rapidly hopped out and commenced to interrupt into the enterprise utilizing sledgehammers, crowbars and what regarded like a noticed.

Police have been notified and so they responded to the scene shortly after. San Francisco Police discovered the car that had rammed into the constructing on thirteenth close to Van Ness Ave. Police say the identical crew has burglarized different dispensaries within the metropolis tonight.