SMITHFIELD, Pa. — A Fayette County pizza shop is offering a $1,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest of a man caught on security camera smashing the glass on their door and breaking into the shop to steal the cash drawer.
It happened around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
“Yeah, he was pretty bold to do that,” said Fat Angelo’s owner, Harry Wilson.
Security video shows a man carrying what appears to be a hammer, walking around the corner by the door of Fat Angelo’s in Smithfield. You can see he hits the glass with the hammer. He looks inside, and then walks away. A few seconds later, he comes back, pushes out more of the glass, and makes his way inside.
Cameras inside the pizza shop then catch him walk behind the register and take the hammer and smash the cash drawer before leaving the shop. That register was later ditched in the yard next to the plaza the pizza shop is in. The drawer did not have any cash inside when it was stolen.
It’s not the first time someone has done this.
Fat Angelo’s also has footage from when someone broke in on Nov. 1 by smashing out a window. That person took the cash register, which had about $300 inside.
In both break-ins, security cameras appear to catch a red SUV, but it’s unclear if the break-ins were done by the same person.
“It’s a pizza shop. It’s not a bank!” Wilson said. “Even if we would keep money in the register, it would only be $200-300 dollars. So what they think they’re going to get I really don’t know, besides hopefully jail time.”
This might not have been the only time this suspect was caught on a business’s security cameras late Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Video from Lakeside Golf Cars near Morgantown, West Virginia appear to show the man, dressed in the same clothes as the man in the Fat Angelo’s video, in the parking lot.
The business owner there tells Channel 11′s Andrew Havranek the man was looking in the windows to their showroom, and they remotely sounded an alarm, which may have scared the suspect away. They haven’t noticed any damage.
As for the damage at Fat Angelo’s, the Wilsons haven’t gotten the bill for the door replacement yet, but the glass from the November break-in cost $1,200 to replace.
“Just trying to make a living, feed our family, and people come and want to destroy that,” Wilson said. “So now we’re left with replacing glass, doors, registers. It’s just very frustrating at times, and hopefully we find them.”
Fat Angelo’s is offering $500 cash and a $500 gift card as a reward for information that leads to an arrest. If you have any information call Pennsylvania State Police.
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