$20,000 worth of merchandise stolen from midtown boutique

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TULSA, Okla — A Tulsa concern proprietor is dealing with a devastating loss, aft thieves stole $20,000 worthy of merchandise connected Thanksgiving Day.

Just aft 4:00 a.m. connected Thanksgiving day, Paige Van Norman got a telephone from her alarm institution saying idiosyncratic was breaking into her boutique Willamina.

Van Norman said astatine archetypal she ignored the call, but past had a atrocious feeling astir it.

That atrocious feeling turned retired to beryllium 1 of her worst nightmares.

Willamina is simply a precocious extremity covering boutique that has hardly been unfastened for a month.

It's located successful a caller improvement adjacent East 12th Street and South Lewis Avenue.

The information video showed 2 thieves breaking successful connected Thanksgiving Day and rummaging done the store.

Van Norman said those thieves stole astir $20,000 worthy of merchandise earlier they ran off.

“They had travel successful done our backmost doorway which was locked erstwhile I near truthful we’re not definite precisely what happened. But they had travel in, we had a hold connected our alarm and they started conscionable grabbing merchandise anyplace they could and the alarm started sounding and they ran", Van Norman said.

She said this is the 2nd interruption successful they've had.

The archetypal 1 was close earlier they opened, but determination wasn't immoderate merchandise wrong the store astatine that time.

After the archetypal interruption successful they decided to enactment successful cameras and a information system.

While it's unfortunate that thieves stole from her store, Van Norman is hopeful the surveillance video volition assistance constabulary drawback the suspects.

“The constabulary were wonderful, they got present truly accelerated and watched done everything with us. We showed them each the videos and footage. Luckily we person large cameras successful present and were capable to get truly large shots of these people. They were wearing masks, Covid benignant masks, not afloat look masks truthful we person immoderate bully images of them and we’re hoping that idiosyncratic tin place them", Van Norman said.

Police are asking that if anyone recognizes the individuals successful the video to telephone the Tulsa Police Crimestoppers astatine 918-596-2677.

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