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<\/p>\nThe longtime Manor Road favorite is recovering after a masked burglar forced entry. Nearby business owners said it isn’t an isolated incident. <\/p>\n
AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 School House Pub, a long-standing East Austin bar, is recovering after a masked burglar broke in and stole a safe last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the Austin Police Department, officers received an online report about the burglary, which occurred Friday, July 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police said a person wearing a mask forced entry into the business and removed a safe before leaving the scene.<\/p>\n
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Owner Christina Torres said the loss goes beyond stolen property.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We feel violated,” Torres said. “We’re a small family business.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said it isn’t the first time her business has been hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We had an AirTag in the safe,” Torres said. “[APD] actually came out, met us at the property that they found the AirTag, but they didn’t find the safe or anybody there.”<\/p>\n
Other Manor Road owners said almost every business on the street has been hit within the past year, including Teddy’s Bar, just steps away from School House Pub.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“They’ll start at the end of the street. They’ll hit businesses going down the end of the street,” general manager of Teddy’s Bar Jeremy Hicks said. “Money will be stolen. Everyone kind of talks about it between the other general managers and all the people on the street.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said the bar has had to make permanent changes.<\/p>\n
“We actually have no cash on site. We don’t keep a safe on site anymore,” Hicks said. “It’s definitely affected our customers, our guests. They don’t love that we don’t take cash. It’s too much of a liability for us now.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both business owners said the break-ins have taken an emotional toll on staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“They depend on that to pay their bills and so do we,” Torres said. “Just kind of sad. Frustrating.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said support from her regulars is helping her family business move forward.<\/p>\n
“The Manor Road community and just our guests are amazing and helpful,” Torres said. “They know how hard we work and what our family puts into this business.”<\/p>\n
The School House Pub case has been assigned to a detective in APD\u2019s Commercial Burglary Unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators said the case remains active, and no arrests have been made at this time.<\/p>\n
Police encourage anyone with information about the burglary to contact the APD Commercial Burglary Unit.<\/p>\n
KVUE also asked APD how many Manor Road business break-ins have been reported this year. The department said it’s still gathering those numbers.<\/p>\n
As business owners work to protect themselves from theft, APD recommends owners report suspicious activity, install visible security cameras, monitor alarm systems and make sure both the inside and outside of their businesses are well lit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The longtime Manor Road favorite is recovering after a masked burglar forced entry. Nearby business owners said it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-394751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}