27-05-2025
Thieves target Brookside, Midtown businesses over the weekend
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Several offices inside a Brookside building were broken into over the weekend. Surveillance cameras show three people exiting a white truck early Sunday morning.
'They decided to smash one of our doors and go in and rob a couple of offices,' said Joe Zwillenberg.
Zwillenberg owns Zwillo Properties, which leases out office space on the second floor of the building. Some of his tenants were hit by thieves on Sunday morning.
'These types of things cost five, six, seven hundred dollars. Door frames that are broken are very expensive. And then the sense of security. It's a secure building, but you know, your people feel violated. They feel like they've been attacked,' Zwillenberg explained.
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He said thieves mostly got away with electronics.
'TVs, computers, stuff like that, and anything valuable,' he said.
Zwillenberg called 911 and was on site to talk with KCPD officers shortly after the break-in.
'They got here and took a report, did some dusting for some fingerprints, watched the (surveillance) video. It seems like the police department has been all over this and wanting to know information, wanting to know how much it's going to be, those types of things, and interviewed the different business owners on my second floor. So I've been incredibly happy with the response so far.'
Businesses in Brookside weren't the only ones hit early Sunday morning.
Hemp Haus on 39th Street in Midtown also has boarded-up doors. Employees say their security cameras also caught thieves getting out of a white truck.
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'It's a reality of where we are today in society that people do do these things. But that's why we have security. That's why we have police. I feel like, along with what they're doing on the streets, with the people who are driving crazy, doing street racing. I feel like our city understands this is what we have to do to get these people and get them arrested and hopefully to rehab their life and not do these types of things.'
FOX4 reached out to KCPD Monday for updates on these investigations, to see if any arrests had been made, and if the incidents in Brookside and Midtown were connected. We are still waiting to hear back.
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