SEATTLE — A marijuana store in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood has been burglarized yet again.
Seattle Police said they were called to Have a Heart on Northwest 85th Street at around 2 a.m. Tuesday.
When officers arrived, they found a stolen car positioned perpendicular to the building’s front doors and partially blocking the sidewalk. It had been used to break into the business.
“When I showed up here it’s far more extensive than I had thought, I think it’s one of the worst in terms of damage… Six to eight people. I would say they took at least $10,000 wholesale,” said Diane Walter, Vice President of Have A Heart.
Surveillance cameras captured the moment the group shows up. You can see the car backing up and ramming into the building. After four tries, the car ends up completely inside. Several people run in, jump over the counter and start grabbing merchandise.
Police described the suspects as light-skinned Black males in their late teens to early 20s who were wearing face masks, and sweatpants and sweatshirts in various colors.
Police said they were witnessed leaving the scene in two vehicles: A silver sedan and a black sedan.
Walter says in her 10 years with the company, stores in the chain have been burglarized multiple times.
“I can’t even give you a total but definitely over 10,” said Walter.
Back in 2018, KIRO7 covered a robbery that also happened at their Greenwood location.
Walter says of the chain’s five locations, four of them have been burglarized.
“So within the past 10 days, we’ve been robbed three times, twice and one of our locations in Bothell, and that location had been shut down because it burned May 2022, and we just had a grand opening, we were robbed two days before our grand opening, and the day after our grand opening,” said Walter.
She says dispensaries in the area are tired of having to clean up the mess, knowing it can happen again.
“I do have a message for the state, and we need something to happen, something to change, and along the lines of what is our tax revenue, you know, that we produce and that we provide to the state - where is it going in terms of can it come back to us, can it keep us safer,” said Walter.
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