Surveillance video captured a man smashing through the front door of Mantiiras in Dallas\u2019 Bishop Arts neighborhood before stealing money from the business, according to its owner.<\/p>\n
The video shows a man walking up to the front door of Mantiiras around 2:30 a.m. He stumbles before hurling something at the glass. Once inside, he goes straight for the cash register, looks around and then leaves.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis all happened in a minute,\u201d owner Luis Martinez said.<\/p>\n
Martinez started Mantiiras in 2023 when he was 18 years old.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m super proud of my business. I think it makes me more happy bc its been able to help my family as well,\u201d Martinez said.<\/p>\n
Martinez said the man stole all the money the business made the day before.<\/p>\n
About two hours later, Martinez said surveillance cameras captured another man walking through the same broken door and stealing more items.<\/p>\n
\u201cStole our soda, stole our merch… just like for us to be dried out with our product; it’s like ahh it’s not fair I think,\u201d Martinez said.<\/p>\n
The shattered door was replaced Friday. Martinez said the $600 repair came out of his own pocket.<\/p>\n
Mantiiras wasn\u2019t the only Bishop Arts business targeted.<\/p>\n
A few blocks away, surveillance video shows what appears to be the same person kicking open the door of Wayward Coffee before stealing the register.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust so violating, just so violating, and just so rude,\u201d owner Caroline Irby said.<\/p>\n
Irby said the man then went to the owners\u2019 other business, Outpost Fine Goods, where surveillance cameras recorded him stealing there as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuch destruction honestly is what it is and no regard for what we have built together,\u201d Irby said.<\/p>\n
Both owners said they want whoever was responsible to be held accountable.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the fullest extent, I\u2019m down for that,\u201d Irby said.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC DFW. AI tools helped convert the story into a digital article, and an NBC DFW journalist edited it again before publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surveillance video captured a man smashing through the front door of Mantiiras in Dallas\u2019 Bishop Arts neighborhood before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-426777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426777","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=426777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}