Six Berkeley Restaurants and Shops Burglarized Early Sunday, From Fourth Street to Telegraph
Burglars smashed windows and grabbed cash drawers at five Berkeley restaurants and a skincare shop early Sunday, Nov. 1. Three were on Fourth Street, one on San Pablo Avenue and two near the UC Berkeley campus. Police are looking into whether the break-ins are connected, and readers reported businesses in Albany were also hit.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at night. Photo: Daniel L. Lu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Berkeley police are investigating a string of overnight burglaries that hit six businesses early Sunday, Nov. 1, the morning after Halloween.
Where the burglaries happened
Fourth Street: Oceanview Diner, Kiehl's and iScream
San Pablo Avenue: Casa Latina
Southside: Kingpin Donuts on Durant Avenue and Hashtag Poki on Telegraph Avenue
Police said the burglars smashed a window at each business and took the cash drawers, which usually hold little money. “Got hit at 3AM 🤒 Happy Halloween I guess!” Hashtag Poki wrote on Instagram.
Police are investigating whether the break-ins are related. KTVU reported the burglaries appeared to be the work of the same group. Readers told The Berkeley Scanner that several businesses in neighboring Albany were also hit.
No arrests have been announced. For owners, the repair bills for broken storefront glass often cost more than whatever was in the stolen drawers.
Sources
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