OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – An Oakland enterprise proprietor is coping with back-to-back robberies. He says two of his gasoline stations bought robbed on the identical day inside minutes of one another.
The robberies occurred round 3 a.m. Monday. The stations’ proprietor Arash Salkhi owns a complete of 4 gasoline stations in Oakland. He says all of them have been robbed 5-6 occasions every throughout the final 12 months.
And with the 2 current robberies, he says he doesn’t know if he could make it as a enterprise proprietor in Oakland.
Surveillance video from Grand Gasoline on Martin Luther King Jr. Approach in Oakland (included above) reveals an worker pleading as a bunch of masked males pry open the door and leap over-the-counter.
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The boys then empty the trash can and fill it with cigarettes off the again cabinets. Salkhi says he was disturbed watching the footage and says police didn’t present up.
“And my employee is calling 911 screaming on the phone, ‘Help! Help! Help!’ and no one is showing up. It’s just ruthless,” Salkhi stated.
And at Gas 24/7 down the street, robbers smashed their manner into the storefront and took off with a trash can filled with cigarettes.
“We called the police. You’d think the police would be on site, not on the first robbery but the second robbery. They’re nowhere to be found,” Salkhi stated.
On Dec. 29, at one other gasoline station Salhki owns, video (included above) reveals a robber smashing their manner by way of a bulletproof cage the place an worker is.
Salkhi says he’s contemplating closing his Oakland shops as a result of he can’t afford the cleanup prices and doesn’t need his staff to get harm.
“There is no law and order in Oakland, and I don’t know what to do,” he stated.
Salkhi says he’s written letters to the Oakland mayor’s workplace, the D.A. and Oakland police asking why 911 response occasions are gradual, and he has not obtained a response.
“I don’t see them saying one thing how to prevent these things to happen. All I saw is crime is down in Oakland, and with burglaries, I’m like you got to be kidding me, add insult to injury,” he stated.
Salkhi stated he changed the doorways to each gasoline stations however is fearful in regards to the robbers coming again once more. He added that he’s glad Prop 36 handed however doesn’t place confidence in Oakland police to implement the brand new legislation.
