LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KTSM) — The owners of two Las Cruces businesses have been dealing with the aftermath of being burglarized twice in the past week.
First, it was their Fig and Brie restaurant last weekend and then Drip Drive Las Cruces on Thursday, Dec. 5.
“I can see on video, someone walking in and they were behind our counter, and they were going through, trying to grab the register,” said Mona Rae Waugh, co-owner of Drip Drive Las Cruces and Fig and Brie.
The front door was shattered at Drip Drive Las Cruces. Surveillance video shows a person wearing a hoodie walking out with what Waugh said is the cash box.
Waugh and Nadia Lopez also own Fig and Brie, a restaurant next to Drip Drive. Waugh and Lopez said it also got broken into on Nov. 30. Surveillance footage shared on social media also shows a person wearing a hoodie walking away with the cash register.
“We have staff that relies on their paycheck. You have everything else, utilities, your lease, everything that’s in combination with it. So that might not seem like a large amount for a business per se, or two of them together, but it definitely is. It does it hurt,” Lopez said.
Both businesses remain open. Waugh and Lopez add that the community has shown them a lot of support during this time.
KTSM reached out to Las Cruces Police regarding these break-ins. We did not hear back.
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