{"id":76433,"date":"2025-07-19T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/76433\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:13:15","slug":"phoenix-businesses-on-edge-after-burglar-targets-melrose-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/76433\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix businesses on edge after burglar targets Melrose District"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Melrose <\/p>\n

PHOENIX<\/strong> – Some business owners in Phoenix’s Melrose District are on edge after a burglar hit a restaurant and a coffee shop, causing thousands of dollars in damage and stealing cash.<\/p>\n

Owners are hoping surveillance video will help police track down the person responsible.<\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

Just before 3 a.m. On Wednesday, July 16, surveillance video shows what appears to be a man hopping a metal security fence at Royale Kitchen + Cocktails, near 7th and Glenrosa avenues<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moments later, he smashed a window at Royale Kitchen + Cocktails<\/strong><\/a> and entered the building, holding a flashlight in his mouth as he moved through the darkened restaurant.<\/p>\n

“Obviously someone who was a professional, someone who’s doing this obviously for a living,” said Marc Howard, owner of Royale Kitchen + Cocktails. “They climbed the fence in the back very quickly like a cat, they were completely dressed, head to toe, in full-covered clothing.”<\/p>\n

The theft and damage totaled thousands of dollars. The thief searched the building until he located the restaurant’s safe.<\/p>\n

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Dig deeper:<\/p>\n

Howard believes the suspect has committed similar crimes before.<\/p>\n

“They had all the right tools; they knew exactly what they wanted and what they were going after,” he said.<\/p>\n

The damage wasn’t limited to the restaurant. The burglar also broke out the door to Window Coffee Bar<\/strong><\/a>, located in the same complex, stealing money from the locally owned business before exiting less than two minutes later.<\/p>\n

“It’s sad because there are a lot of people who are working really hard to try to create a vibrant, a beautiful, a unique Melrose neighborhood,” Howard said. “That’s why we’re here. We’re really proud of what’s been created, and we love being a part of all these amazing businesses that are along this road here, but a lot of us are struggling with these instances.”<\/p>\n

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What you can do:<\/p>\n

Phoenix Police are asking anyone with information or who saw something suspicious that morning to call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.<\/p>\n

Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – Some business owners in Phoenix’s Melrose District are on edge after a burglar hit a restaurant…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-76433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114882203362924337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76433","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=76433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}