Burglars cut and smashed their way into a Pico Rivera pharmacy early Tuesday morning before making off with $30,000 worth of narcotics, authorities said.
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The crime involved three men who got past a metal door using a portable power saw, then smashed a glass door around 2:20 a.m. Tuesday at the drug store in the 9200 block of Whittier Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the owner of the pharmacy, which sustained about $8,000 in damage.
The owner told CBS2 the store had been broken into numerous times before and that drugs worth as much as $30,000 were taken in the latest caper.
Surveillance video shows a black car pulling up in front the business and two men in hoodies and masks stepping out from the passenger side, one of them wielding a portable reciprocating saw that he uses to cut open a metal roll-away door. He resorts to a long crowbar handed to him by his accomplice at one point before going back at it with the power saw.
Video from inside the store shows one of the men disappearing in the back and then running out moments later carrying a bag or box as lights begin to flood the inside of the business.
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