A group of cell phone repair owners has had enough after recent burglaries at various stores.
Thieves broke into the iRepair store in the 1400 block of Walnut Street in northeast Dallas early Sunday morning and stole not only laptops, high-end head phones and phones for sale, but also phones customers dropped off for repairs.
“All that information is important to them, now we are going to have to explain to them and replace our products, and obviously it’s our responsibility – it’s in our possession while we’re repairing it,” said iRepair Owner Muhammad Saleem, “These thieves don’t know - they just grab whatever it is.”
Saleem says he’s not alone; other cellular repair stores have been burglarized in a similar manner over the last couple of months.
“They’re very confident, they look very professional, they have time to look around and take everything,” said Tony Pham, owner of Cellular Zone in Garland.
“Since November, started right before the holiday hit on of my shops in Irving, one on Northwest High, one in Richardson and another in Dallas,” said Obaid Jabbar, owner of Rescue Cell Phone, a chain across DFW.
Jabbar says the problem is those who are willing to buy stolen cell phones whether it’s for use or for resale.
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Police have NOT said the break-ins are connected, but the owners believe they could be.
Garland Police provided NBC 5 information regarding the theft at Cellular Zone a couple weeks ago, but Dallas Police did not respond Sunday for a request for information on the thefts.
