Two masked burglars broke into Rollerz Smoke Shop in Phoenix around 3 a.m. Monday, grabbing cash and dozens of vaporizers in a swift, captured-on-camera theft.

Surveillance footage shows one person in a hood and mask rolling up to the store with a trash bin while another appears to use a sledgehammer to smash a window. Once inside, one burglar lifts the store’s cash box as the other loads vapes into the bin.

“I woke up and my boyfriend had called me and said, you don’t work today. And I was like, why? And he was like, you guys got robbed,” said Jacqualyn Long, assistant manager at Rollerz Smoke Shop.

Long said the thieves took the cash box, which held only a couple hundred dollars, and a large number of vaporizers. “Those were our main profits were the Geek Bars and just vapes in general,” she said, adding that she believes the suspects stole the products to resell quickly. “What we think is it’s just about the money. They just wanted to sell them.”

This break-in follows a similar incident reported last month, when a car was driven through the doors of a Tempe smoke shop and vapes were taken.

Long called the crime heartbreaking. “I will say it broke my heart. Cause I’ve been working here for like six months, and I’ve gotten to know the owner very personally, and he doesn’t deserve it, nor do any other small business. I just don’t get the point of why they would target a small business,” she said.

By Monday afternoon the damaged window was boarded up, though small pieces of glass remained outside. Long left a message for the suspects: “I hope you know we will find you. No matter what, at the end of the day, you’re going to get caught. And karma is rough.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact Phoenix police or submit an anonymous tip through Silent Witness. A GoFundMe has also been created to help the small business recover losses.

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