CCTV captures thieves targeting Brighton store in brazen ram raid
Thieves have stolen over $10,000 worth of luxury handbags from a Brighton store in a ram raid Monday morning, making it the second incident on the same strip in the last two weeks.
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A luxury consignment store in Melbourne’s southeast has been ramraided in an early morning attack – the second on the same strip in just two weeks.
Police are investigating after a vehicle was driven into the front of the boutique near the corner of Carpenter and Church streets in Brighton in the early hours of Monday.
Thieves made off with more than $10,000 worth of designer handbags in what locals say is of a growing crime trend in the area.
Exactly two weeks earlier, a neighbouring jewellery store was targeted in an almost identical attack.
CCTV footage from the first incident shows a vehicle slamming into the shopfront, before a rope was attached to the metal security gate and violently ripped off.
A man wearing a face covering and a woman in a cap were seen making off with multiple items from the store.
“I can’t believe it has happened again,” said Carolyn Williams, manager of the jewellery store.
Williams said there had been no word from police on whether the offenders had been caught.
“You’re ruining people’s businesses…it’s cruel,” she said.
“If they just put bollards in it would stop them.”
State Liberal MP James Newbury said that this “shouldn’t be a part of the normal life for a small business trader”.
“The shop owners are saying is it’s not if they’re going to be ram raided, it’s when,” Mr Newbury said.
“These traders are working so hard, and to know they’re going to be ram raided and that frankly the government isn’t stopping these crimes from happening… it’s just not fair”.
The investigation is ongoing and police urged anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers.
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