ST. LOUIS – A cafe in the Shaw neighborhood boarded up its front door but remained open Sunday after being struck by attempted thieves for the second time.
The Fiddlehead Fern Café had its storefront door window busted out by four men early Saturday morning. The men didn’t take anything because the business’s alarm sounded, scaring them away, but it’s the second time in just a month the business fell victim to a break-in.
"It's just really sad to me that they would risk their freedom and their life,” Darcy Heine, owner of Fiddlehead Fern Café.
Surveillance video captured the burglars as they were trying to get away, showing three men walking and Heine said there was another man driving the getaway car.
"It was very discouraging," she said.
Heine said the Shaw neighborhood is a nice area, but she said this break-in is a tough one to process. This is because it's the second time in a month she believes these same men targeted her business. The robbers got away with hundreds of dollars in the first break-in but fled the second time because of a burglary alarm.
"We had about a week of our new beautiful glass door and then unfortunately we were broken into again," Heine said.
Now she's on alert, taking precautions so it will never happen again.
"It's not scaring us,” she said. “We are just trying to figure out how to deal with it."
And she's thanking the community for their support during this tough time.
"So many people have heard what’s happened and come to support,” she said.
Heine did file a police report. She’s hoping the burglars get sloppy, so police catch them.
