A cash box bandit has been targeting local beverage businesses in recent weeks, smashing windows and quickly snatching cash drawers. Based on online video, business owners speculate it’s the same person. In the caption from their footage, here’s Black Plague’s description: “The assailant was driving a 2015 (ish) white Jeep Patriot (or similar). He was wearing Black hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, DC shoes (possibly pure model), stands roughly 6’ tall, fairly slim build…”
Thorn Brewing compiled a list of businesses hit in the last few weeks (below), and Longship Brewery owner Dan Jachimowicz recently spoke with NBC 7. Additionally, at least four breweries in the Temecula and Murrieta areas fell prey to a similar M.O.
Local businesses burglarized:
- Iron Fist Brewing Company (Vista)
- Golden Coast Mead (Oceanside)
- Prohibition Brewing Company (Vista)
- Barrel Harbor Brewing (Vista)
- Bittners Restaurant Equipment (Vista)
- Brothers Provisions Market and Deli (Rancho Bernardo)
- Lost Cause Meadery (Mira Mesa)
- Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside)
- Papa Marce’s Cerveceria (Carlsbad)
- La Fleur’s Winery (San Marcos)
- Rip Current Brewing (San Marcos)
- Newtopia Cyder (Scripps Ranch)
- Booze Brothers (Vista)
- Double Peak Brewing (San Marcos)
- Longship Brewery (Mira Mesa)
If you have any information regarding the break-ins, contact the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.