Dunn Lumber Hit by Theft Ring Targeting Seattle Businesses
Retail theft is a story all too familiar for business owners in Seattle. At Dunn Lumber’s Lake Union and Greenlake locations, surveillance videos show break in after break in. “They’re coming over the fences, just walking in and out,” says General Manager Nick Winnem. Winnem tells me it’s “very difficult to run a retail operation” in Seattle thanks to brazen criminals ransacking stores like Dunn Lumber. Most of the thefts happen in the middle of the night, but Winnem says they occur during retail hours too. He tells me that power tools always go first and are easy to flip on the black market. “This is something you see even at box stores,” he says when I ask if the problem Read More ›
