A South Bay small business owner is expressing growing frustration after her shop was burglarized for the second time this month.<\/p>\n
The latest break-in occurred early Sunday morning at the Celtic Tea Shoppe in San Jose, and security video captured the entire incident. Surveillance footage shows a suspect wearing a hoodie walk up to the business, smash the glass front door within seconds and run inside.<\/p>\n
“Here we go again,” said Kristen Scott, co-owner of the Celtic Tea Shoppe.<\/p>\n
The burglary comes just three weeks after an Aug. 4 incident in which two suspects smashed the front glass door early in the morning to gain entry. Six other businesses in Branham Plaza were burglarized on the same day during that spree.<\/p>\n
“They came in,” Kristen Scott said of the earlier break-in. “They came back here. They looked for stuff and they kicked on the door and left.”<\/p>\n
During Sunday’s break-in, the intruder stole a toolbox belonging to Dean Scott, Kristen’s husband and business co-owner.<\/p>\n
“There’s nothing we can do,” Dean Scott said. “We have to have that kind of glass in our front door and they can just pop it with a hammer and it’s done.”<\/p>\n
The couple takes preventative steps to reduce their risk, including omitting a cash register from the store and removing all electronics every night. Despite these measures, the shop has been burglarized six times over the years.<\/p>\n
Although very little was stolen during the latest incident, the financial impact continues to mount. Kristen Scott said she must now pay $800 to fix the front door after having just repaired the glass from the previous break-in.<\/p>\n
“That $1,600 I don’t get to reinvest in my business,” Kristen Scott said. “It makes it harder for me to pay my bills.”<\/p>\n
The San Jose Police Department is investigating the incidents, but the shop owners say stronger community action is needed.<\/p>\n
“I want the public to be aware of the crime that is happening because we really need to stop it,” Dean Scott said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Bay small business owner is expressing growing frustration after her shop was burglarized for the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-449471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449471","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=449471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}