ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque enterprise proprietor is fed up with crime. In a single day, her tattoo store was hit by burglars and it’s not the primary break-in.
This time, the burglars made off with tools that she – and the artists at her store – have to make a residing.
“They have been fairly fast, it appeared like they knew what they have been doing,” stated Stephanie Malan, proprietor of Relic Tattoo. on Montgomery close to San Mateo.
Safety video exhibits at the least two folks in hoodies taking off with toolboxes.
“They really got here in by means of again right here, and now we have three separate locks on this door,” Malan stated.
The burglars took a crowbar to Malan’s again door the deadbolt was utterly destroyed.
“We’ve got monitoring warning indicators however it doesn’t appear to maintain them out,” Malan stated.
As an alternative, the burglars tried to destroy the monitoring tools, however that didn’t work.
“The police and my monitoring firm have been right here comparatively shortly. They have been right here in 5 to 10 minutes, sadly, it was simply not fairly sufficient time,” she stated.
This isn’t the primary time Malan’s enterprise has been focused by thieves. She shared a photograph of her entrance window boarded up after a smash and seize in October.
“I had a shopper whose car was stolen about 5 o’clock within the afternoon,” she stated. “It was fairly brazen. We’ve had points with catalytic converters, and I do know that a few of my neighbors round right here have skilled a few of these points as effectively.”
Malan stated she hopes Albuquerque police can step up their presence within the space or deploy a digital camera within the strip mall car parking zone to discourage crime.
“They’ve one over within the Albertson’s car parking zone. Sadly, it doesn’t attain over this far,” she stated.
Within the meantime, she plans on including extra cameras inside her enterprise to discourage break-ins.
“I’d prefer to see the individuals who reside right here and work right here be capable to make be capable to make a superb residing and really feel secure,” Malan stated.
