YELLOW SPRINGS — Officers are investigating several reported break-ins at Greene County businesses.
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The Yellow Springs Police Department told News Center 7 that Bentino’s Pizza, Wander & Wonder, Tibet Bazaar, and Village Herb Shoppe were each broken into on Saturday evening into the early morning hours of Sunday.
“Officers are currently processing the individual crime scenes, collecting evidence, and canvassing the area for witnesses and surveillance footage,” the department said in a social media post originally announcing the break-ins.
Police shared video from inside one of the businesses. It shows someone breaking the glass door and taking cash out of the register.
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Carl Lea, owner of Bentino’s, told News Center 7 that he was hoping to sleep in on Father’s Day, but he instead worked up to five missed calls and some unfortunate news that his store was broken into.
“This is not a - it’s not something we normally expect to see happen,” Lea said.
He described glass being all over the floor of the dining room.
“And then they had taken the register,” he said.
As reported on News Center 7 at 5:30, insurance is helping replace the door, but he called the break-in heartbreaking.
“We’re small businesses, you know. None of these places, especially the ones in King’s Yard, that like, we’re not high margin business,” Lea said.
All four businesses broken into were in the same building in King’s Yard.
Dave Hergesheimer works at a neighboring pottery store and called the crimes “kind of shocking.”
Hergesheimer told News Center 7 that the Yellow Springs Street Fair took place over the weekend and that he thinks it may have had something to do with the timing of the break-ins.
“There were a lot of people here, and I guess they figured there was a lot of money in the drawer after Saturday,” he said.
Anyone with information can contact the Yellow Springs Police Department at (937) 767-7206.
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