{"id":94975,"date":"2025-12-20T03:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/94975\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T03:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:31:07","slug":"northeast-dallas-businesses-targeted-in-early-morning-smash-and-grab-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/94975\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Dallas businesses targeted in early morning smash-and-grab spree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Several businesses in northeast Dallas were broken into early on Thursday morning, and owners believe the same suspect may be responsible, according to surveillance video and business owners.<\/p>\n<p> Smash-and-grab ambush   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Video from Mario Bros Tacos on Abrams Rd shows a man repeatedly throwing a rock at the front door until the glass shatters, and he is able to enter the restaurant. The break-in happened during the early morning hours, the owner said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;He got away with $300 to $400 in cash from our opening till and our staff tips,&#8221; said Mario Moya, owner of Mario Bros Tacos. &#8220;The most damage was to our window and door that he broke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Moya said he was alerted to the break-in by text messages from his security company. He said the incident brought back memories of a similar burglary at his business in 2023.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dallas police have not identified a suspect as of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> Multiple businesses targeted <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A second break-in occurred minutes later at Primos Brothers Pizza, located at Forest Lane and Abrams Road. Surveillance video from that business shows what appears to be the same suspect using a rock to break the glass and gain entry, the owner said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The owner of Primos Brothers Pizza, who declined to appear on camera, said the suspect stole money from a tip jar. The rock used to break the glass was later placed inside the jar.<\/p>\n<p>  The toll on local owners <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Moya said at least two other nearby businesses were also broken into around the same time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;I paid out of pocket for everything; the door, the window, the tips, the till,&#8221; Moya said. &#8220;It\u2019s unfortunate, but there are people out there that prefer to steal than work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Investigation status <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dallas police said the incidents remain under investigation. Authorities did not immediately release details about possible suspects or whether the cases are being linked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided from interviews conducted by FOX 4&#8217;s Steven Dial.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\/northeast-dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northeast Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; Several businesses in northeast Dallas were broken into early on Thursday morning, and owners believe the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,223,44266,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-94975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-northeast-dallas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94975","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=94975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}