Burglars Ransack Red Bear Brewing Company

metroweekly.com:

Metro Weekly that he received a call from the alarm company around 2:43 a.m., indicating that someone had broken in. “Every now and then we get a false signal, but never at that time of the morning,” Bee said. “So I knew something was up.

So I told them to dispatch police, and then a few minutes later, I got a call from the police, saying there was a break-in and that I needed to head down there.”Bee said “the police scoped everything.

They even sent dogs in to make sure there wasn’t somebody still in there. Once they figured out that there was nobody in there, we went in and kind of took a look at the damage.”The front glass door to Red Bear had been smashed.

One of the cash registers from behind the bar had been thrown on the floor, although no money had been taken. The door to the office had been bludgeoned and forced open, with the office ransacked, but the would-be thieves did not appear to have made off with any loot.Nothing was missing from the bar’s inventory. “We have a safe, but we really don’t keep a lot of cash on hand anyway,” Bee said, adding that he believes the intruders saw the safe in the office but could not open it. “The safe is very large and robust.