VIDEO: Burglars use sledgehammers on gaming machines at Chill House restaurant in Frankfort

FRANKFORT, Ill. (WLS) — Just days after a process drive was launched to cease video gaming burglaries, a housebreaking crew used sledgehammers to get away with money in Frankfort.

The Chill House in Frankfort was first hit in August and once more Monday morning.

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Surveillance video exhibits three masked suspects in darkish clothes used sledgehammers to interrupt into the long-time family-owned bar and restaurant in Frankfort Monday morning for the second time in simply over a month.

“I mean, it was like déjà vu…” Stan Rousenelos, half proprietor of the Chill House, stated. “It’s kind of one of the most helpless feelings to know that somebody’s inside your business smashing and robbing you, and you know the police have just been dispatched and they missed them by 30 seconds.”

They’re concentrating on video playing machines in these smash-and-grab burglaries.

The cash-only techniques are owned and maintained by gaming corporations which obtain a 3rd of the income earned. Another third goes to the state and the opposite third – to the companies which function them.

“They hit us for five of our six machines this time,” Rousenelos stated. “So it’s almost like they’re trained in it, they know exactly what they’re doing.”

Rousenelos stated they hosted a big profit over the weekend, so the suspects made away with hundreds of {dollars} by smashing and prying open the machines full of money, shortly.

“Let’s face it, every restaurant, every gas station, every bar and grill now has these machines,” he stated. “They’ve become a necessity for business owners out here, unfortunately.”

He stated one thing concerning the system has to alter and legislation enforcement is aware of that, too. That’s why completely different businesses are teaming as much as coordinate their efforts and arrest the criminals accountable.

More than 50 detectives from police departments and sheriff’s places of work throughout the Chicago suburbs have fashioned a process drive to research video gaming thefts.

“I don’t want anybody to feel scared to come in here and so that’s why I need to take those steps because I want this to be the last time not only because it drives me crazy but because if we don’t all as citizens stand up to this, then it’s just going to get worse,” Rousenelos stated.

The family-owned enterprise says it is now putting in inside metal shutters and a 24-hour monitoring service to discourage this from taking place once more.

The Will County Sheriff’s Office stated nobody is in custody.