The Sacramento Police Department said that within the past two weeks, there has been an increase in the number of downtown commercial burglaries.
Along with her husband, Lluvia Escobar operates uvVisions Photography. “The feeling of invasion is so heavy,” she remarked.
Monday morning at around three in the morning, someone broke into her studio on the second story of an office building on J Street. The two burglars were seen by a security camera scoping out her studio before making off with pricey cameras and gear.
“We had everything pretty much perfectly packaged for them because we keep our gear very organized,” Escobar stated. “We have two wagons filled with tripods on the floor, the base of it, and then our gear stacked just right on the inside and then five backpacks.”
Escobar claimed that in order to enter the second floor of their office building, the trespassers had to pass through three locked doors.
Escobar believes the suspects may have camped out in the corridor before making their surprise attack in the middle of the night, though it is unknown how they managed to get past the first two closed doors.
She posted images of the shoes prints on door number three and a picked lock that demonstrate how they broke into her establishment.
The robbers just needed five minutes to remove goods valued about $34,000.
When discussing how other local photographers had donated them equipment since they were hit, Escobar broke down in tears.
Sacramento police reported that they had stepped up downtown patrols but were unable to provide an exact figure for the number of establishments that have been targeted recently amidst an upsurge.
Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a number of laws aimed at reducing retail theft into law. Local attorney Jennifer Mouzis predicted a significant decline in burglaries and retail theft.
According to Mouzis, the new legislation give police the ability to add up the worth of stolen goods from several victims in order to punish offenders more severely and make it more difficult for them to resale stolen goods.
“It’s not petty theft in the sense of someone who just went to steal a sandwich,” Mouzis stated. “It’s a business plan and those people will be held accountable, and those people will be spending time in jail and prison.”
Escobar intends to carry on her husband’s business, but not in this exact location.
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“I couldn’t even look at the footage,” Escobar stated.
She has now experienced two burglaries at her workplace. They were at an office next door to where they are presently the first time, which was in 2021. She wants to leave the building now.
“We don’t even want kids because this business means so much,” Escobar stated. “To have it broken into and have our means stolen from right beneath us. It just hurts so bad.”
