BALTIMORE, MD – Police in Baltimore said Asian business owners are being targeted for burglaries of their homes and cars while the business owners are at work.
According to the Baltimore County Police Department, police are seeing a rise in home burglaries where Asian American business owners are being targeted. In what appears to be a national trend, organized criminal groups are surveilling Asian-owned businesses to learn the owner’s daily routine.
“The burglars will sometimes enter the business owner’s car, while the victim is working, in order to learn where the owners live. Other times, the burglars will follow a business owner home. While the victim is at work, the burglars return to the victim’s home, break in, and steal cash and valuables,” police said.