‘Snake burglar’ slithers into Riverside salon, steals $8,000

RIVERSIDE — Police were looking for a antheral dubbed the “snake burglar” who wriggled his mode done a Riverside salon and fled with respective thousands dollars.

Surveillance video showed the antheral slithering connected his belly astatine the Rustic Roots salon, 10246 Indiana Ave. successful Riverside, astir 5 a.m. Friday, Nov. 26, aft seemingly getting into the concern done a rooftop occurrence escape.

“It conscionable gave maine chills up my spine,” proprietor Lori Hajj told KNBC-TV.

Hajj says the thief she calls the “snake burglar” stole hundreds of dollars worthy of products, currency from the registry and a harmless with much than $8,000 inside.

A information defender who was installing a caller alarm strategy astatine the salon told KNBC-TV that the crook had been trying successfully to debar a question sensor.

The aforesaid antheral whitethorn person tried to burglarize different businesses previously, including a section pizza parlor wherever information video showed a antheral crawling connected his belly, the presumption said.