FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The owner of a local Fresno clothing store says he\u2019s fed up after yet another theft at his business, the second one so far this year.<\/p>\n
Just last week, the owner of Drip On Drip, located in Fresno, says a group of men walked into his store and stole nearly $900 worth of merchandise, and it was all caught on camera.<\/p>\n
A little over three years ago, Roman Gonzalez opened the store with hopes of building a successful small business in the community.<\/p>\n
But since then, he says he has had to deal with multiple break-ins.<\/p>\n
In one case, thieves crashed a car into the building before stealing several items. <\/p>\n
The most recent theft occurred on February 27, when Gonzalez says two groups of men entered the store and waited for the right moment to strike.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo there was two different friend groups that came in and they just looked at the perfect moment to grab some stuff and walk out,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n
After previous thefts, Gonzalez says he began wrapping each hanger with a wire connected to the rack to prevent people from grabbing large amounts of clothing at once. However, two clothing racks were left unsecured \u2014 and those were the ones the suspects targeted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith other smash-and-grabs or consumers coming in and running out with clothing, we learned to tie up all of our racks with cables so they can’t grab a whole lot in a row,\u201d Gonzalez explained.<\/p>\n
Now, Gonzalez says he is considering adding more security measures, including requiring customers to leave their bags near the entrance.<\/p>\n
As a family-owned business, he says he doesn\u2019t like taking those steps but feels they may be necessary to keep his doors open.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe try to at least give the benefit of the doubt, but the benefit didn\u2019t pan out for us this time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez says he filed a police report but has not received any updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The owner of a local Fresno clothing store says he\u2019s fed up after yet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-203088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203088","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=203088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}