Police are investigating a brazen robbery at a cellphone repair shop in East Oakland.
Surveillance video showed Mr. Phone Repair being ransacked by several suspects in a flash-mob-style burglary around 6 a.m. Wednesday.The cellphone repair shop also sells new electronics and offers customers affordable prepaid plans.One of the shop's owners, Abdullah Mohammed, said his business does a lot to help the community."Sometimes they're short on money, we will let them go," he said. Adding, "We fix about 10 to 15 phones every single day.
Like 15 people broke in. That's a crime isn't it?" Mohammed said.He said he then began calling the non-emergency line."I'm on hold for 10 minutes and nobody picked up. I called actually five or six times," he said.Police did not show up for more than nine hours."Every single phone that we have in here, we have a tracker inside the phone," said Mohammed."We know exactly where the phones are.
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