"The safe at Lush Lounge & Theater in Northeast Minneapolis contained about a week's worth of earnings and employee tips, totaling an estimated $3,500. In total, the burglary took about three minutes, co-owner Jared Lawrence told 5 Eyewitness News. Surveillance video revealed three thieves breaking into the bar overnight Thursday, forcing their way upstairs to the office, and making off with the entire safe, in what co-owner Andy Rausch, one of three co-owners with Lawrence, called a targeted crime."
""I think they knew right where to go. I mean, to be in and out in two to three minutes, and to go behind a locked door, up a flight of stairs - they knew right where to look," Lawrence said. "It definitely feels targeted, and it does feel like an attack, especially on the heels of our Pride planning right now," he told . "It feels kind of like a personal attack as a queer space," he said."
"After the thieves broke in through a window on the ground floor, the bar's alarm set off immediately. Lawrence received an alert at about 4:20 a.m. Lawrence said the co-owners have been working up plans to turn the Lush Theater & Lounge into an LGBTQ+ nonprofit space. "What these individuals did is they didn't just steal from Lush, they stole from the community, and this is a bit of a setback in our goal.""
A lightning-fast burglary hit Lush Lounge & Theater in Northeast Minneapolis early Friday morning. Thieves took the business’s safe from the office after forcing their way upstairs, stealing about a week’s worth of earnings and employee tips totaling an estimated $3,500. Co-owners said the speed and route suggested the thieves knew exactly where to go, calling it a targeted crime. The break-in occurred after entry through a ground-floor window, and the alarm triggered immediately, with an alert received around 4:20 a.m. The owners described the theft as an attack on a queer space, especially amid Pride planning, and said it set back plans to convert the venue into an LGBTQ+ nonprofit space.
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