Smash-and-grab caught on camera: Thieves drive car into T-Mobile store

CRIME

Jan 14, 2025, 9:45 PM | Updated: 10:55 pm

BY BRIAN CARLSON

KSLTV.com

KEARNS, Utah – KSL TV obtained an exclusive video that showed one of Utah’s recent smash-and-grab break-ins on the Wasatch Front, where suspected thieves drove a car into a T-Mobile store.

Police have arrested some of the suspects, but believe more may be out there.

Watching the video for yourself, overnight Friday morning a car drove right through the T-Mobile store at 4920 West 6200 S in Kearns. Approximately 20 seconds later, you see the suspected thieves run in to steal thousands of dollars of iPhones. Police said it’s not the only one.

Caught on camera – car drives into Kearns T-Mobile store during smash & grab break in. How it’s not the only one, in a @KSL5TV #EXCLUSIVE tonight at 10pm. pic.twitter.com/Y5QxiW7QOI

— Brian Carlson (@briancarlsontv) January 15, 2025

“We started talking to multiple agencies. A lot of agencies reached out, not only Salt Lake, but Utah County, and determined those suspects were also related to multiple cases they had,” Sgt. Aymee Race, with the Unified Police Department, said.

Another store at 1305 East 3205 S. in Millcreek, police said, was also hit by the same suspected thieves four days earlier on Jan. 6. The front is now all boarded up, where they tried to ram the door with a car. Broken glass still in the parking lot.

Although police believe they arrested a least two of the young suspects involved, they said there are likely more break-ins, and more suspects doing similar smash-and-grabs.

“We are still looking for other suspects, both male and females, and we do believe those suspects to be juveniles as well,” Race said.

Suspects had been willing to crash their way in, to take whatever they could grab before police arrived.

What’s interesting is T-Mobile employees told KSL TV Tuesday that the door is probably more expensive than the merchandise the suspected thieves got away with inside, but police would still like to find the rest of the thieves all doing the same thing.

Investigators believe the break-ins may be gang-related. If you have any information on the smash-and-grab thefts, call Unified Police.