{"id":406208,"date":"2026-07-21T05:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406208\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T05:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:32:20","slug":"crowbar-used-to-break-into-the-mexican-bar-in-poway-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406208\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowbar used to break into The Mexican Bar in Poway \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brannon Ciora had a rude awakening early Sunday morning. His phone alerted him to a break-in at his Poway restaurant, The Mexican Bar.<\/p>\n<p>Ciora called 911 as he watched surveillance video of two men with crowbars prying open the front door of the restaurant and going inside.<\/p>\n<p>The two rifled through the cash drawer and then headed toward the alarm panel, ripping it off the wall but it was too late; the alarm began blasting so loud that the men appeared to panic and ran outside. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey got scared and bailed out of there,\u201d Ciora told NBC7.<\/p>\n<p>Ciora believes the would-be crooks targeted his restaurant after a busy weekend that included big crowds for World Cup soccer, Padres games and a busy brunch. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey thought they would come in and get some cash and get out, but they didn\u2019t,\u201d Ciora explained.<\/p>\n<p>He never leaves money in the register overnight and says no small business should. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou keep your doors locked, keep your safe hidden, and keep no cash in your registers,\u201d Ciora said.<\/p>\n<p>Ciora\u2019s wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Da_cqa4BE40\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted videos of the attempted heist on Instagram<\/a> and thousands of people have watched it. The goal is to get someone to identify the two men who wore dark clothing and whose faces are difficult to see. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do want to catch them,\u201d Ciora said.<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is investigating what they say appears to be a random act. No other reports of business burglaries using crowbars have been reported in the area, according to Lt. Colin Hebeler.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information about the break-in, please contact the Sheriff\u2019s Department at<br \/>858-868-3200.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brannon Ciora had a rude awakening early Sunday morning. His phone alerted him to a break-in at his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6756,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-406208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-poway","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406208","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=406208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}