FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) — A man pretending to deliver food to a salon walked out with thousands of dollars’ worth of items this past Saturday in Fresno.
Cosmo K has been open for about 5 years, and staff say nothing like this has ever happened.
The owner of this store claims that the suspect walked in, pretending to deliver food, during business hours.
No one was hurt, but now they are warning others about who you let into your business.
Owner of Cosmo K Salon Keen Marez says she’s now ramping up security inside what she calls her second home, after a man casually walked in, grabbed her bag, and walked out.
“I think he walked in very casually. He knew exactly what he was doing. So he made himself look like he was supposed to be here,” said Keen Marez, Cosmo K Studio owner.
“Now we’re going to have to take more precautions with who’s coming in and out.” she continued.
Video surveillance footage of that moment, showing what appears to be a man on a bike walking into the salon at 3 p.m. with a box and what appears to be a backpack.
A few seconds later, he walks out with Marez’s bag, dumps the items out of a box, and hides the purse inside.
Soon after, an employee walks out.
“He then catches one of my employees, and she walks out, and he says he’s DoorDash. He hands her food that he happened to have with him, a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, and told her it’s a delivery for a salon. She did ask him like, Who’s it for? And he said, I don’t know,” said Marez.
Marez says the bag and everything in it were valuable, not just financially but sentimentally.
“He has all my information. My kids’ school ID cards I keep in my wallet because they’re their first ones from school. Those are in there. All my insurance stuff, my ID, my home information, my car key were in there. Lots of cash. And I also had like little gifts inside my purse, too.” she said.
She’s now installing alarms and more cameras and is grateful the situation didn’t turn violent.
“I work every day, and you know, my kids and I have plans for Christmas, and he took them from me. So I got sad, I got angry. I felt bad for my coworkers because everybody was here, so then everybody felt unsafe themselves, you know,” said Marez.
A report was filed with the Fresno police department.
This is just another reminder to be careful who you let into your business.
The total value of what was lost was upwards of $6,000.
If you happen to know anything about the situation, please call the Fresno police at (559) 621-7000.