Luxurious retail retailer in West Loop focused for fourth time this yr with newest smash-and-grab
A retail retailer within the West Loop is reeling after being the goal of a smash-and-grab theft for the fourth time this yr.
Drake Sweeney, inventive director of SVRN, a small enterprise specializing in luxurious trend, estimated the shop sustained a $50,000 to $80,000 loss in property harm and $50,000 to $100,000 in merchandise stolen after a bunch of thieves drove an SUV into the retail clothes retailer early Tuesday morning.
“They stole every little thing you possibly can think about,” Sweeney stated.
The shop had final been hit and robbed lower than a month in the past, in late November.
Within the newest theft, Chicago police say round 3:11 a.m. a bunch of thieves hit the safety gate and entrance door of the shop, situated at 171 N. Aberdeen St., with a Jeep SUV to achieve entry. They fled utilizing a number of different automobiles, police stated.
The shop had put in concrete pillars and no-break glass as a part of added safety to stop extra robberies, Sweeney stated. The thieves bypassed the safety through the use of a truck to tug the concrete barricade from the shop’s entrance earlier than crashing the Jeep SUV into the door, Sweeney stated.
The theft was captured on retailer cameras, and Sweeney stated there have been round eight individuals concerned based mostly on the footage.
Sweeney stated workers boarded up the entrance of the shop Tuesday and have been targeted on refurbishing to hopefully reopen later within the week.
“We wish to reopen for the neighborhood and recoup mentally to the most effective of our skill,” Sweeney stated. “However it’s getting extra excessive.”
Nobody was in custody and police are investigating.
The techniques behind Tuesday’s theft mirror these of current smash-and-grabs within the West Loop, Wicker Park and the Close to West Aspect involving vehicles being pushed into buildings so these concerned can rapidly run in and take merchandise.
Final week, a failed “crash-and-grab” was tried on Michigan Avenue at a high-end Magnificent Mile store. A ditched automotive could possibly be seen early Monday morning after the try.
