Tom Aus, owner and baker at Carl’s Bakery, arrived to work early Tuesday morning at about 2:45 a.m., at about 3:00 a.m. he walked to the front of the store to find the stores drive-through window on the floor and the day’s start-up cash missing.
“In the past they’ve taken donuts, chips and milk on the way out,” Said Aus of the apparent most recent break-in at the bakery. “But not this time. They were after the cash and that’s exactly where they went.”
The thief(s) appear to have tried to break the drive-in window, yet once they found that it was plexi-glass and unbreakable they went to work on the windows frame with some type of pry-bar pushing the entire window into the store.
Aus said he believed that this was the third time the bakery has be broken into.
“Years ago, when they broke in. they shattered the glass and it shattered so terribly all over everything. After that we put plexi-glass in. They couldn’t break it. It was obvious that they had tried this time, but when they couldn’t [break the window] they barred the entire window out with the frame work,” said Aus.
Granite Falls Police Department officer Brian Struffert responded to the call and the break-in is currently under investigation by Granite Falls Police.
“They [the Granite Falls Police Department] will do their job and hopefully the perpetrators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” said Aus.
Aside from that morning’s start-up bag of cash, nothing else seemed to be missing from the store. The store’s two tills appeared not to have been touched.
Gary Swanson answered Aus’s phone call at 6:00 a.m. to patch the wrecked window and bring the bakery’s drive-through lane, in an alley-way beside the store, back to operational.
“When someone violates you like that,” said a visibly agitated Tom Aus Tuesday morning. “I don’t care whether it’s your car, your house, or your business they have absolutely no right to do that. Morally, ethically, it’s the bottom of the barrel. You can tell me you don’t like me, you can hit me in the face. All that’s very obvious and very evident, but when someone violates your property, there’s no excuse. And the more I think about it the madder I get. A good day goes sour in short order when someone does something like this.”
