BERKELEY, Calif. (KTVU) – Surveillance video taken from inside Romeo’s Coffee on Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue shows a impulse dual teenagers appropriate laptops off tables and make a run for it – usually to be taken down seconds later.
Barista Jasmine Brouwer was there. “I was creation coffee, we listened a scream, we looked adult and one of them was using out a pathway with a customer’s laptop and she was chasing right after him,” pronounced Brouer. Another patron jumps on a other consider and pins him to a ground. Brouwer ran to a pathway to help. “I saw them all wrestling on a belligerent perplexing to get out a front door. So we ran over and attempted to assistance reason him down and take a laptop out of his hands, that we were means to successfully do.”
She says a span entered a café only before Noon Thursday, asked for water, and sat down for about 5 notation before creation their move.
Both laptops were recovered. Police arrested one of a suspects – a 15-year-old.
Employees contend a pattern of a front opening helped locate these thieves. You lift to exit – a suspects pushed. “Our door, given it’s handicap, doesn’t pull out. It pulls in and it was that perplexity that separate second that authorised everybody to get to him,” pronounced Dino Micheletti, owners of Romeo’s Coffee.
Micheletti says he’s unapproachable of a approach a whole café came together to strengthen a congregation and their property. “Our sign is we concede everybody one possibility until we don’t get that possibility anymore,” pronounced Micheletti. “So we have a genuine organisation of people here and they are constant here and we consider that reflected on a occurrence right here. If we demeanour during a video there was no hesitation. Everyone was doing good for a common cause.”
Micheletti says business owners in this area – that is nearby a UC Berkeley campus and during a corner of People’s Park – are active in preventing crime.
He says this is a initial attempted laptop burglary during Romeo’s given they non-stop dual years ago. And it improved be a last. “People who have that agenda, don’t come here,” pronounced Micheletti. “We will pull behind on that.”