Concord Robbery
Two businesses in Concord were rammed by vehicles on Monday night in separate attempted robberies. Both incidents were captured on video and believed to be perpetrated by the same gang of thieves.
In both cases, the suspects left empty-handed but caused significant damage in the process.
Until the roll-up door of one of the businesses is replaced, Tyler Hagen, owner of HSD Engineering on Solano Way, is using a car to block access to it. He's backed in, just like the suspects who rammed the door on Monday night during the robbery attempt.
"Fortunately, the only thing that saved them from completely demolishing our building was our recently purchased forklift. It has also served as the new method for opening and closing the door," said Hagen.
Just after 9:45 p.m. on Monday, a group of suspects used a car with a stolen license plate to try to gain entry. But Hagen says once they took a look inside, they chose to leave without stealing anything from the high vacuum repair operation.
"They decided to just wreck their car, my door, and flee," said Hagen.
"I suspect they were looking for a marijuana grow house," said Hagen's business partner, Alex Lobodovsky.
Lobodovsky co-owns the building with Hagen and runs Sertec, Inc. next door.
"Because that forklift was in the way, they would have been inside this building and probably pulling a job on a customer — you know, it belongs to the lab," said Lobodovsky.
Lobodovsky and Hagen are offering a $500 reward for information leading to arrests and convictions in this case. That's in addition to the over $2,000 it will cost to repair the damage.
"It's not cheap, but we'll just pay for it out of pocket," said Hagen.
Just five minutes before the attempted robbery, a business owner less than two miles away shared surveillance video with KRON4.com showing what appears to be the same gang doing the same thing to Micro-Measurements and Pacific Instruments on Pike Lane.
Once again, the would-be thieves rammed the car into the roll-up door, looked inside, and then left empty-handed. The sister companies manufacture high-precision data systems for clients like NASA and the U.S. Army.
Hagen hopes someone will recognize the suspects.
"Send a message and just teach other people not to do these kinds of things. It's not beneficial for anyone. Nobody won here," said Hagen.
Reports have been filed with the Concord Police Department in both cases.
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