The burglaries come a couple of weeks after someone stole hockey gear from the ice rink and plundered cash from the town’s video store.
Troopers are investigating.
Teresa Knopp, a waitress at the Alaskan Steakhouse and Motel, said the burglar or burglars left no signs they used force to enter the restaurant on Thanksgiving.
“Either it was an inside job or somebody stayed in the building after we closed,” she said. “The only thing missing was money.”
The steakhouse opened for breakfast on Thursday but closed in the late morning so employees could eat Thanksgiving dinner with their families.
The burglar or burglars stole money from two cash registers and apparently used a crow bar to pry open an office door.
“A couple of cash bags were stolen,” Knopp said. “They had money in them. I don’t know the amount. It wasn’t that much.”
A trooper report estimated damage to the restaurant at about $2,500, more than twice as much as the cash stolen.
Troopers took objects for fingerprinting, Knopp said.
Also burglarized was the Delta Elementary School.
Someone smashed the windows on the building’s west side doors to enter, a trooper report stated.
“Once inside the building the suspects smashed interior office door windows and destroyed other equipment,” the trooper report stated. “A small safe was stolen from the office.”
The burglary is believed to have taken place in the early morning hours on Friday. Damage to the building was estimated to be in excess of $10,000.
Finally, the Liewer-Olmstead Ice Arena was hit for the second time in a month.
Someone broke open an outside door, causing extensive damage, according to a trooper report.
The burglar or burglars then broke glass and damaged the door to the ice rink’s score box.
The aftermath of the break-in was discovered Friday afternoon.
The trooper report did not say what, if anything, was stolen but estimated damage to the building at about $900.
Earlier this month, a burglar or burglars looted more than $2,000 worth of hockey gear from the ice rink and broke into Video Unlimited, stealing about $1,000 in cash.
Anyone with information about the burglaries is asked to call troopers at 895-4800.
The posting by made_in_alaska brings up another discussion from the old DNM site: should US citizenship be required before being eligible for the PFD?
Not sure what I think about that idea but for sure I believe drug and alcohol testing should be required for the PFD, unemployment benefits, and all other public handouts.
The are the cause of about 99.9% of the problems here in Delta. And the state doesn't do a dam thing about it. They can poach all the moose and bison they want, vandalize property and steal from their neighbors and the local magistrate just slaps them on the wrist. Pathetic.......