Sometime between the first two arsons last night, someone drilled out the locks on the front door of Wayward Coffeehouse at 8570 Greenwood Ave. N. and stole a “significant amount” of cash.
Bronwyn, the owner, (who didn’t want her last name used), said the burglar appeared to know what they were doing. “It seemed pretty professional. They drilled out the lock. We’re trying to determine when it happened. We closed at 11:30 last night… and it was reported at 4 a.m.”
The burglar didn’t break or disturb anything else, but did take cash. She didn’t want to give any more details since it’s now a police investigation. She doesn’t know if it’s in any way related to the arsons, but wonders how our neighborhood can have arson patrols and neighbors on high alert, yet we still have break-ins and arsons.
“Businesses are definitely getting targeted,” she said. “You’d think somebody would be seeing something. It’s really frustrating that nobody’s seeing anything.”
10 responses so far ↓
1 Whopper // Nov 9, 2009 at 12:09 pm
What a splendid neighborhood we are becoming……
2 Neighbor // Nov 9, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Oh dear. Considering the emphasis patrol on Greenwood during these hours, this is stunning and bizarre.
3 Trix // Nov 9, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Thinking the same thing, Neighbor. Bizarre and frustrating.
And also very sad. I love Wayward.
4 time to kick crime out of Greenwood // Nov 9, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I think people driving out at 2, 3, 4am don’t pay much attention to the people they see on the side walk or what they are doing. People are more concerned about getting to where they want to go, and usually stay on the main road. Everything happends in the back where it can’t be seen. I think every small buisness should have a camera system, and a lock box inside the buisness with the VCR and tape. That is why we need to set up Nehiborhood watches, and get lots of police patrolling the area at night.
5 MaggieFan // Nov 9, 2009 at 2:03 pm
This is MESSED UP. I wonder if pyro is distracting people so another person can rob things. Scary thought, but it’s a head-scratcher.
6 jlw // Nov 9, 2009 at 4:54 pm
i don’t think it’s at all connected. maybe someone who’s good at crime hates fires and wants there to be MORE police helping in this spree of fires that are CRIMES the police should be handling. these are seperate incidents. firebugs usally are just into fire and get off on it.
7 garrett // Nov 9, 2009 at 5:30 pm
so this was reported at 4am….same time the Olive You burned….interesting.
and 30 minutes after salmon’s service center got someone on tape trying to break in.
gotta be the same guy….
8 garrett // Nov 9, 2009 at 5:32 pm
we’ll probably never know if he broke into greenbean first…
9 tw78 // Nov 9, 2009 at 8:17 pm
10 Daytoner // Nov 9, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Sorry to hear about this Bronwyn. It couldn’t happen to a nicer business owner. I live in and own a business in the Greenwood/Phinney neighborhood. My wife and I frequent Wayward many times a week.
I know it really really helps if folks get out and use the services of their local businesses during this time. Best thing for restaurant and cafe owners is to have a flood of business on the heels of a disaster to keep cash flow up and the business functioning.
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