HOUSTON – Real-life cookie monsters are on the loose after breaking into multiple Crumbl Cookies locations across the Houston area.
Two of the reported break-ins happened overnight in Cypress and Oak Forest. A River Oaks location was burglarized last week.
According to the franchise owners, in each incident, the thieves broke in the same way and didn’t seem to care about the cookies.
Surveillance video obtained by KPRC 2 reporter Corley Peel showed two men breaking into the Cypress location around 4 a.m. You can hear their voices as they make their way to the counter. The men stole a safe before taking off.
“The safe is bolted to the ground and they were able to get it out,” Joe Durfey, a Crumbl owner in Cypress, said. “It seems like whoever is doing it, is targeting Crumbl.”
Cypress location surveillance video:
In the past month, seven Crumbl locations have been hit by thieves throughout the Greater Houston area - six of them in the past week. The owners have reported the break-ins to the Houston Police Department.
Another surveillance showed two men breaking into his Oak Forest location around 2 a.m.
Oak Forest location surveillance video:
The thieves were seen using tools to remove the safe.
Another video shows them walking out the back door with the safe and a laptop.
“They seemed like they were on the phone through AirPods with supposedly the driver, I would imagine,” Chandler Mott, the owner of an Oak Forest Crumbl Cookie store, said.
River Oaks location surveillance video:
Mott also shared this video of three men breaking into his store in River Oaks last week, also taking off with a safe. The shattered windows and damage from the break-ins reportedly cost the owners more than the amount of money stolen.
“It’s very frustrating as a business owner to continuously fix repairs that you don’t cause,” Mott said.
Fortunately, no one was hurt or at the stores at the time of the break-ins. Anyone with information is urged to call HPD.