{"id":113804,"date":"2025-12-30T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/113804\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:00:22","slug":"thieves-break-into-fresno-ice-cream-parlor-make-off-with-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/113804\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves Break Into Fresno Ice Cream Parlor, Make Off With Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"

After more than a decade in a food truck, it only took a few months for Fresno business owner Janel Haas to have her first break-in, losing out on thousands of dollars of ice cream and merchandise.<\/p>\n

Haas, the owner of Jay\u2019s Specialty Ice Cream<\/a>, awoke at 4 a.m. Monday to an alert from her security cameras telling her of motion at her shop at Shaw and Hayes avenues, she told GV Wire.<\/p>\n

The video showed two men walking off with tubs of ice cream after breaking in a window.<\/p>\n

\u201cThankfully, on my security system, I have the ability to talk into the camera. And I did,\u201d Haas said. \u201cI yelled. I said, \u2018get out, I see you! Get out!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

The two thieves left, but not before taking mugs, t-shirts, hats, and four tubs of ice cream.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not a great way to wake up at 4 o\u2019clock in the morning,\u201d Haas said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Janell Haas, owner of Jay\u2019s Specialty Ice Cream, says thieves made off with $2,000 of ice cream and merchandise. (Facebook)
\nInsurance Could Drop Haas for Making a Claim<\/p>\n

Haas said they could have left with much more. The milkshake machines and waffle-cone makers are expensive items, not to mention the now-broken glass. Video from the nearby gas station shows the duo touring the businesses and construction sites at the corner of Shaw and Hayes with a crowbar.<\/p>\n

She estimates about $2,000 in losses. While not a lot for many, she said it still impacts her as a small business \u2014 especially in her slow season. What\u2019s more is the impact on her insurance.<\/p>\n

After consulting with her insurance agent she said filing the claim could cost her when her policy expires in April. Her agent told her when that happens it will make it very difficult to get a policy at all because of the claim, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sad reality is like, then why do I pay for insurance?\u201d Haas said.<\/p>\n

Haas Did Not Want to Be Told \u2018No\u2019<\/p>\n

October marked her 13th year in business. Before the storefront, which she opened in September, Haas operated out of food trucks, a regular at Gazebo Gardens, Fresno State\u2019s Vintage Days, and at school carnivals and football games.<\/p>\n

Opening a brick-and-mortar has always been part of her plan, and for the past several years she\u2019s been looking at locations. She finally found the location at 5985 W. Shaw Ave., spending a year-and-a-half to go through the permitting and opening processes.<\/p>\n

She still operates her food truck.<\/p>\n

Haas got the inspiration to start her business after her senior project at Fresno State involved ice cream.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen my professor happened to tell me that no one would ever follow me around in my mom van, and I was like, \u2018OK, the fact that you just told me \u2018no,\u2019 that I cannot do it makes me really want to do it more,’\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Since then, she\u2019s built a following, especially around her \u201cOreo Delight\u201d flavor. Her banana-and-Nilla-wafer-cookie ice cream sells well, as does her salted caramel, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are also other costs that nobody sees that we have to take care of and cover. And until you\u2019re a business owner, you don\u2019t really know that,\u201d Haas said. \u201cSo the little things that happen, that little dig, they hurt sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After more than a decade in a food truck, it only took a few months for Fresno business…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-113804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}