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Small businesses must protect their business premises from theft. Burglars equipped with hand-held radios and power equipment spent hours pulling off an elaborate heist at a Fayettville, North Carolina pawn shop. The burglars got into the store by first cutting through the ceiling, then boring through an exterior wall and an 8-inch thick concrete vault to steal jewelry and cash totaling more than $227,000. The thieves were interrupted at the outset of the heist when they set off an alarm system, like that of the ADT Security System, but somehow avoided detection as police and a store manager searched the premises inside and out.
They then disabled the alarm system, cut through the metal and concrete and made off with the jewelry, cash and computer equipment. The store's general manager said that the shop's security system is state of the art, with camera surveillance all over. The burglars were clearly sophisticated and knew exactly where to enter the building and the vault. The police and store manager, nonetheless, would not have known of the burglar's break in had it not been for the security system.
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