FORT MYERS, Fla. — Greg Cerio is looking for the suspects responsible for attempting to steal from his store Cerio’s Jewelry in Fort Myers on Cleveland and Colonial.
“It makes me sad. I just I’d like to see them get caught in, you know, get what they deserve,” said store owner Greg Cerio. Five determined burglars can be seen on a video
trying to smash the front door and rip their way into the store.
“It’s still a hit. But, you know, it could have been much worse,” said Cerio. This time, though, they couldn’t get in thanks to the bulletproof doors. The video then shows them running away.
“You’ll see in the video something spooked them, and they all started running really quickly around the building. We do have cameras all the way around the building. So, we caught all of that. And they ran over to this parking lot over here,” said Cerio.
While Greg is grateful the suspects didn’t get inside, he says the damage to the door and window can cost thousands of dollars to repair. “You know, I’d be afraid of what they could do, you know, just smashing things and, you know, could have been much more expensive than it was,” said Cerio.
The five suspects are masked, but Greg believes they are the same suspects behind the other break-ins in the area. “The police told me that these five guys have done this before to other businesses and got away with it and did much. You know, they actually got inside and took, you know, a lot of things. So, you know, here they didn’t but I know other places they did,” said Cerio.
Greg is asking anyone with information on the suspects to come forward and call FMPD. “I know a lot of other store owners. They’re shocked …. They’re really nervous talking about sleeping in their stores at night. It really just it sends a really bad message,” said Cerio.
If you have any information regarding this incident or information on these suspects, please contact the Jewelers’ Security Alliance at jsa2@jewelerssecurity.org or 212-687-0328.
Article provided by Madison Zaleski of ABC Gulf Coast news, click here to view article and video.