{"id":204860,"date":"2026-03-25T02:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204860\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T02:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:44:07","slug":"repeat-break-ins-drain-fort-myers-shop-owners-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204860\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeat break-ins drain Fort Myers shop owners | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A Fort Myers business owner says break-ins are becoming a frustrating reality after their shop was hit overnight again, this time leading to a police chase and at least two arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud Factory owners Al and Jennifer Amir say they&#8217;re exhausted. Surveillance video shows three people pulling up in the middle of the night on Tuesday, forcing their way inside, grabbing merchandise, then running back to a car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got woken up out of bed because we hear the alarm going off\u2026 and obviously, it&#8217;s not an employee at three in the morning,&#8221; Jennifer Amir said.<\/p>\n<p>The couple watched it all unfold in real time. After calling 911 and while rushing to their store, they kept their eyes on the surveillance feed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were watching them as we were driving over there,&#8221; Al Amir said.<\/p>\n<p>About $2,500 in merchandise was stolen and another $1,500 in damage was left behind. The door has since been repaired.<\/p>\n<p>The owners say the real issue is the repeat offenses. The last break-in was just months ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Annoyed that it has happened again and again,&#8221; Jennifer Amir said.<\/p>\n<p>Al Amir says the pattern doesn&#8217;t make sense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They keep trying and they always get caught,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It just doesn&#8217;t make sense what goes through people&#8217;s minds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The owners say they are grateful deputies responded so fast. But they also say they&#8217;re tired of constantly having to recover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the same cycle so at this point, it is what it is,&#8221; Al Amir said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A Fort Myers business owner says break-ins are becoming a frustrating reality after their shop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[10815,209,211,210,31550,54634,28,897,67144],"class_list":["post-204860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-10815","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-drain","tag-drainage","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-plumbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}