'Some of these fish had been in that tank for over four years.'
with broken garage doors, a destroyed fish tank and $50,000 in overall damage by early Monday, February 5, but the store is up and running again.
After damaging the recreational shopping area and waiting room, one of the men who broke into the store smashed a hole into the Herbal Cure's 250-gallon freshwater fish tank. Just enough water was left in the tank for the fish to survive, Marlow says, but a heater on the tank fell during the damage and began melting plastic, poisoning and killing fish in the process.
After spending around thirteen minutes inside the store, the thieves drove away before police arrived, according to security footage. That wasn't the end of the long, hard weekend for the Herbal Cure, however.Less than 48 hours later, Marlow was woken up by an alarm alert from the Herbal Cure a little after 2 a.m. on Monday, February 5. Two garage bays in a storage building on the property had been broken into by cars that had backed through the doors.
Denver dispensaries and growing operations have been consistent targets for burglaries and even armed robberies since recreational pot sales began in 2014. According to afrom the Denver Department of Excise & Licenses, there were 162 instances of criminal offenses against the local marijuana industry in 2022, accounting for 0.5 percent of the city's total crime reports. Of those 162 offenses, 156 were burglaries, while larceny accounted for the other six.