Fed Up With Break-Ins, Chinatown Merchants Make Changes

CBS San Francisco

August 15, 2022

Small business owners in San Francisco's Chinatown are fed up with a spike in vandalism and break-ins. In an effort to prevent the next hit, some are making small changes they hope make a big difference.

Asia Star Fantasy on Grant Avenue shared surveillance video that shows a burglar sitting on the ground outside the business in the overnight hours of July 18. He looks left and right several times then he breaks the glass door with a tool.

About 40 minutes later, another camera captured what appears to be the same suspect communicating with an accomplice in an alley down the street. Soon after, another thief enters the store and grabs the cash register.

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