Overnight, a burglar wreaked havoc on three small businesses in Eagle Rock, leaving local business owners fearing for their safety as law enforcement works to catch the culprit. Surveillance footage captured the man breaking into the Cheebo restaurant on Colorado Boulevard around 4 a.m. Sunday, quickly going for the cash register and fleeing the scene in less than a minute.
Resident Michael Nogueira noted a pattern in the burglaries, mentioning that they tended to occur during bad weather. Nogueira expressed regret that these crimes had to affect small, local businesses rather than larger corporations. The investigation into the burglaries is ongoing, and anyone with information is urged to contact the Los Angeles Police Department’s Northeast station at 323-561-3211.
George Tripodakis, the general manager of Cheebo, expressed concern over how the burglar seemed to know exactly where to find the cash register. Tripodakis suspects that the same culprit also targeted nearby Loop Espresso Club and Chateau Lemongrass, as one of the nearby business owners received an alarm call shortly after the burglary.
