Nearly $5,000 worth of items are gone from Micro Market Spaces, an Oakland nonprofit business incubator, after the office was broken into on Sunday. Now, the co-founder is calling for street closures and blocking of escape routes where these crimes are being committed.
ByThe co-founder of Oakland's Micro Market Spaces is calling for street closures to curb crime after the nonprofit's office was burglarized.Upsetting news as thieves target an Oakland nonprofit trying to help better the community. They broke into a retail business incubator Sunday and stole thousands of dollars worth of items.
"They were able to basically kind of wedge the door and bust the glass and find a way to open the lock by reaching in," Mike Dotson, Micro Market Spaces co-founcer said.location in Oakland. It's a nonprofit business incubator to help artists and merchants learn how to generate their own sustainable income.Sunday though, Dotson started to receive notifications of a login attempt for a device that was inside. He arrived to a broken and unlocked door.
"It's like if 'Grand Theft Auto' is a real game, people are playing this game in real life and having the opportunity to kind of have their way with anything they want to do," Dotson said.
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