Village Beat Kelly Mahan Herrick
Hearing Services of Santa Barbara
Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.
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n the early morning hours of May 26, Los Arroyos on Coast Village Road was the latest victim of a string of retail burglaries throughout Montecito and Santa Barbara. Gaining access by breaking through the glass door, thieves stole the restaurant’s
safe, which was bolted down to the bathroom floor and contained roughly $7,000. They also went back to steal some high-end bottles of tequila. “These guys are professionals,” said Tony Arroyo, owner of the popular eatery, which has called Coast Village
Road home for the last 13 years. The burglary occurred just hours after a similar one on State Street, where what is believed to be the same thieves broke through the door of the Sprint store with a slingshot and stole cell phones and other merchandise, totaling roughly $7,500. Earlier in the week, Harry’s Plaza Café and Renaud’s Patisserie & Bistro in Loreto Plaza were hit, along with Blenders in the Grass on the Mesa. The Loreto Plaza burglaries are also believed to have been done by the Los Arroyos thieves. Last month, more Coast Village Road businesses were burglarized by a group of young adults, including several stores in Montecito Country Mart and Coast Village Plaza, and late last year consignment store Sepi on the 1200-block of CVR was targeted, with thieves stealing high-end merchandise and taking the store’s safe, all in a matter of minutes. According to Arroyo, his surveillance footage shows the thieves pulled up to the restaurant around 4:40 in the morning, and by 4:49, they were gone. “Their license plate was taped over, but we know the vehicle, and we know it was three or four men,” Arroyo said. One of the men resembled the suspect in the Sprint burglary, and Arroyo said that man had been seen the previous
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• The Voice of the Village •
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