VAN NUYS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A store in Van Nuys that sells self-defense equipment was broken into for the second time in less than a week.
The incident occurred around noon on Monday at NakeStores, a retailer of Byrna self-defense products on Van Nuys Boulevard. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, surveillance footage shows a masked suspect entering the store by throwing a rock through a glass door.
It is unclear whether the person was working alone or had a getaway driver.
Police could not say if anything was stolen, but the store sells non-lethal firearms, rifles, pepper spray and other self-defense items.
Thieves broke into a Van Nuys store that sells self-defense equipment, including non-lethal firearms and other weapons that could prove dangerous in the wrong hands.
Monday’s break-in is the third within a year. Last week, five thieves broke into the store and ransacked it.
Store owner Mike Mahfoud told Eyewitness News that the thieves stole several boxes full of products.
The police could not say whether there is a connection between the two most recent break-ins. No arrests have been made so far.
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