LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – FOX5 obtained video surveillance which shows a vehicle driving through the front door of a business in Downtown Las Vegas.
The driver in a champagne-colored Chevy Tahoe is seen getting out of the vehicle after crashing into a vintage clothing store near East Charleston Boulevard and South Commerce Street Saturday morning, shattering the entire glass storefront.
“The lady was making a left turn and it just went directly into my building,” said Off The Threads owner Linda Ruiz. “She ended up backing out of it.”
Surveillance video appears to show the driver in a red hat crawl out of the passenger side of the SUV and walk away from the scene with a shirtless witness.
“She was clearly drunk because there is footage of her holding alcohol,” Ruiz added.
Now Ruiz’s store is boarded up and she can’t get inside. She worries all of the vintage clothes inside are covered in glass shards. This crash isn’t the first time she’s had to fix the front of her shop.
“Just the area is bad and this is just the cherry on top,” Ruiz sighed.
She told FOX5 her store has been burglarized a number of times. The most recent incident was in November.
“My mom’s shop next door has had the same issues.”
FOX5 reported on one of the burglaries her mom’s antique store suffered back in July. Surveillance video captured a series of thieves one morning picking apart Bogart Vintage. First, a woman uses an object to break the glass door at two in the morning. She leaves and returns 20 minutes later, stepping into the store and walking out with the register. About two hours later, two men on bicycles ride by and walk through, helping themselves. Someone else walked and picked up jewelry from the debris. At seven in the morning, two more men walk in through the shattered door. Ruiz said her mother wasn’t notified burglaries until 10am, nearly eight hours after the first break in.
“If you talk to any of the business owners, they’ve all bene targeted and robbed,” Ruiz
Now the new mother of a seven-month old is forced to think of other ways to make a living. In the meantime, she said another shop is giving her some of their space to sell any new clothes she’s able to source.
“My lease comes up in a year and a half and I’m considering maybe leaving the area.”
Ruiz said she filed a police report. The suspect driver is still on the run.
Copyright 2025 KVVU. All rights reserved.
