{"id":2452838,"date":"2020-01-02T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=318629"},"modified":"2020-01-02T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T06:15:00","slug":"two-aspen-restaurants-hit-by-brazen-thieves-take-20k-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/two-aspen-restaurants-hit-by-brazen-thieves-take-20k-combined\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Aspen restaurants hit by brazen thieves, take $20k combined"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aspen police do not yet know if two brazen restaurant burglaries in the past week that netted about $20,000 in cash are related, an APD spokesman said Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still trying to run leads down so we\u2019re not sure about that yet,\u201d Sgt. Rick Magnuson said. \u201cWe have some people to interview. \u2026 I wouldn\u2019t say they\u2019re suspects at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first burglary occurred Saturday at Mi Chola, 411 E. Main St., in broad daylight, said Adam Malmgren, owner and general manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt happened right in the middle of the (day) shift,\u201d he said Thursday. \u201cA door was kicked in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malmgren didn\u2019t want to release further details and said he had no leads or ideas as to who might have been behind the theft. Magunson said $5,000 in cash was taken from the restaurant\u2019s safe.<\/p>\n

The second burglary occurred early New Year\u2019s Day at Brunelleschi\u2019s, 205 S. Mill St., said Gil Vanderaa, the restaurant\u2019s owner. The staff locked up and left around 12:30 a.m., he said.<\/p>\n

Sometime between then and about 6:30 a.m., a burglar armed with a pry bar broke open the front door and headed straight for an office at the back of the restaurant, which was unlocked, he said. The person or person loaded up a 100-pound safe, about 22 inches high by 18 inches deep by 12 inches wide, onto a kitchen mat and slid it out the door, Vanderaa said.<\/p>\n

The safe contained about $15,000 in cash of pooled employee tip money from the holiday week, he said, adding that he plans to reimburse employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new safe\u2019s going to be bolted to the floor,\u201d Vanderaa said. \u201cWe already got it ordered.\u201d<\/p>\n

His video surveillance system was not working at the time, though he pointed out that numerous businesses in his building have cameras.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re one of the most affordable places in town,\u201d Vanderaa said. \u201cWhy us?\u201d<\/p>\n

As if answering his own question, however, Vanderaa speculated that the culprit might be a disgruntled former employee or someone who knows the employee.<\/p>\n

No other Aspen restaurants have reported burglaries recently, Magnuson said.<\/p>\n

The last burglary in the downtown core was at Meridian Jewelers, 525 E. Cooper Ave., on Oct. 30, when two masked men used a pry bar<\/a> to break in and steal $60,000 worth of watches, he said.<\/p>\n

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Aspen police do not yet know if two brazen restaurant burglaries in the past week that netted about $20,000 in cash are related, an APD spokesman said Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019re still trying to run leads down so we\u2019re not sure about that yet,\u201d Sgt. Rick Magnuson said. \u201cWe have some people to interview. \u2026 I wouldn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 22:59:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}