{"id":91384,"date":"2025-07-25T12:41:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91384\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T12:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:41:37","slug":"hooded-thief-caught-on-camera-plowing-stolen-car-into-phoenix-streetwear-store-before-making-off-with-designer-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91384\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooded thief caught on camera plowing stolen car into Phoenix streetwear store before making off with designer clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wild video footage captured the moment a hooded thug plowed a stolen car into an Arizona shoe and streetwear store before making off with looted merchandise during a brazen smash-and-grab early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Chaotic surveillance video shows the thief ramming the car through the glass doors and metal security gate of Restock Ave in Phoenix, then crashing into a shoe display before bolting from the driver\u2019s side and frantically ripping armfuls of clothes off the rack around 3:15 a.m., multiple outlets reported.<\/p>\n<p>The crook, who was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, took off on foot through the mangled gate with the stolen goods before returning to the wrecked store moments later for more, the footage showed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I saw this on the camera, I couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d owner Chris Sotelo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/news\/region-phoenix-metro\/west-phoenix\/watch-car-rams-into-phoenix-streetwear-store-in-brazen-smash-and-grab-theft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told ABC 15<\/a>, as he and his employees worked together to clean up the shards of broken glass and debris. <\/p>\n<p>The security footage captured the thief ramming the car through the glass doors and metal security gate of Restock Ave in Phoenix.  ABC15 Arizona<\/p>\n<p>The hooded thug then bolted from the car and frantically ripped armfuls of clothes from the rack.  ABC15 Arizona<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just shocked. I didn\u2019t know how to react. It\u2019s a lot of hard work. I started this 10 years ago and got it to where it\u2019s at now. For people to come and destroy it kinda sucks. But it\u2019s part of life, you know, things happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sotelo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/07\/24\/phoenix-small-business-victim-smash-and-grab-burglary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told AZ Family<\/a> that the burglar swiped a few designer items while targeting the \u201cexpensive side\u201d of the store, but it\u2019s unclear how much was taken or the total amount of damage his store sustained. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure they had been in here before,\u201d the retailer said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey kind of had an idea of what we had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crash left merchandise and shards of broken glass sprawled throughout the shoe and streetwear shop.  ABC15 Arizona<\/p>\n<p>The brazen heist is now under investigation, with the suspect still on the loose.  ABC15 Arizona<\/p>\n<p>The store owner said the burglar targeted the \u201cexpensive\u201d aisles of his business. ABC15 Arizona<\/p>\n<p>The scorned business owner noted the daring heist hit just as he was gearing up for the busy back-to-school shopping season. <\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the vehicle used in the bold break-in was also reported stolen \u2014 and the suspect remains on the run, the local outlets reported. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild video footage captured the moment a hooded thug plowed a stolen car into an Arizona shoe and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":91385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,5303,4219,1589,8156,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5631],"class_list":{"0":"post-91384","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-car-crashes","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-theft","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-us-news","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-viral-videos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114913927777702261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91384","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=91384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}