LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Some tenants at a southwest Valley business center say they’re feeling violated after multiple suites were broken into this weekend.
Nurse Practitioner at Hummingbird Health Susan Hancock describes the center, near Tropicana and Rainbow, as a place for small businesses to flourish.
“It’s all small businesses, people wanting to have a little dream to work for themselves, whatever their niche is, to help people out,” Hancock says.
She just moved her private practice to the building in December. She says it’s always felt safe, until she got a call this weekend that her suite was broken into.
“I was like, ‘What? What?’ and I just thought, ‘Oh my God, my medication,’” she says.
Hancock says her medical refrigerator was left wide open by whoever broke in, meaning she’s at risk of losing thousands of dollars of medicine. She says her drawers were all rifled through, and needles and syringes were taken.
“Any profit I made, would have made, it’s kind of gone,” she says. “I have to revisit and figure it out if I need to replace all that medication.”
FOX5 saw about 12 other cracked doors with shoe prints on the outside inside the business center on Monday morning.
“Of course I feel violated,” another tenant says, who wants to stay anonymous. “There’s no denying that.”
He says his drawers were rifled through too, but his computer and other valuables weren’t stolen.
“It didn’t seem to me like your typical burglary, meaning that they’re just coming in to look and steal whatever they can steal,” he says.
He says he thinks businesses with sensitive personal information were targeted.
“To see if there were maybe Social Security numbers that they could find, or bank account numbers that they could find. It really seemed like something a little more sinister,” he says.
The tenant says the business center has a number of locked doors, but he heard the key fob system was down this weekend.
“So, maybe somebody knew of this and took advantage of that situation,” he says. “They say criminals always make a mistake, And so let’s just hope that, you know, justice gets served in the long run.”
Crime data from Metro Police shows, in the first week of February there were 55 burglaries reported in the same zip code as this business center.
Total property crimes by month have been steady over the last two years, according to that same data.
FOX5 confirmed Metro Police took a report at the business center, and we requested the full report.
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