More than $30,000 in merchandise, including popular plush toys, were stolen from a La Puente shop that specializes in the collectible items.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Surveillance video from the store showed at least four people broke in and ransacked the store to steal Labubus early Wednesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Labubus are trendy collectibles that are popular with people of all ages with some of the rare or limited versions sold for hundreds of dollars each.<\/p>\n
The thieves, who got in by breaking through the front doors, appear to have targeted the valuable toys, according to the owner,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do TikTok lives, and we\u2019re on Instagram. People know we\u2019re here,\u201d said Joanna Avendano, who owns the shop.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While all but one security camera inside the store were taken down, Avendano said she had a \u201cgut feeling\u201d to see the video when she woke up Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce I checked my phone, they were really going to enter the store. I witnessed everything live when they were in here robbing the stuff,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After she reported the burglary, it took deputies with the LA County Sheriff\u2019s Department about 15 minutes to respond to her business, Avendano said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were aiming just for the Labubus,\u201d she described. \u201cThey know because they took the most valuable stuff. They only left the stuff that is not really popular.\u201d<\/p>\n
Avendano, who has been at the location for two months, said the burglary is devastating to her business and finances.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe took a long time to build this business. We spent a lot of money as well in all of our inventory,\u201d she said. \u201cIt’s just sad to see that people came in and just stole our stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than $30,000 in merchandise, including popular plush toys, were stolen from a La Puente shop that specializes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,17627,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-127822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-puente","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114990600911342235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}