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<\/p>\nThe shop owner said surveillance video captured the moment, and a purchase made afterward left information she could provide to police.<\/p>\n
AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Antiques by Anna’s owner Anna Mazaikina is warning other small businesses after she said two women took a nearly 100-year-old bracelet from her store.<\/p>\n
Mazaikina said the incident happened Tuesday morning at her store located at the Arboretum in northwest Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Surveillance video from the store shows a woman grabbing the bracelet and hiding it behind her phone. Mazaikina said the Art Deco bracelet is worth $375.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was very quick,” Mazaikina said. “\u201cThe moment when, I guess I was trying to show another piece of the jewelry, they did it and they hid it behind the phone.”<\/p>\n
She said then they went to the counter to try on rings, where the woman who took the bracelet bought a ring before leaving.<\/p>\n
Hours later, Mazaikina said she realized the bracelet was missing. But she said the purchase meant the woman left behind information tied to the transaction.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I have the name and the credit card transaction,\u201d Mazaikina said. \u201cI\u2019m going to share all information. I will wait for the police to give me the instructions on what to do next.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Austin Police Department (APD) told KVUE that Mazaikina\u2019s 311 report is in the department\u2019s system but, has not yet been assigned to a detective.<\/p>\n
APD recommends businesses take precautions against theft by training employees to recognize and report suspicious activity, maintaining clear visibility throughout stores and increasing security during peak shopping hours.<\/p>\n
For now, Mazaikina said she is sharing the surveillance video and her experience as a warning to other small business owners.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to be very careful,\u201d Mazaikina said. \u201cI\u2019m glad that we have cameras in the store.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said she hopes what happened at her shop can help prevent other businesses from becoming a potential target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shop owner said surveillance video captured the moment, and a purchase made afterward left information she could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-442549","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\/442549","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=442549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}