Thieves target another Houston film studio

Good evening, everyone. I'm Anthony Antoine. We start with an only on Fox report. Another film and production studio comes forward after being targeted by professional thieves. In this video, you see them there break the front door glass, and then the three of them walk right in. But the thing is, this is not the only situation. It turns out the trio has hit up about a half a dozen Houston studios in a little more than a month. Fox 26's Randy Wallace joining us now live from the north side with an update on that. Randy. Yeah, Anthony. Now we first reported on this gang of thieves, last Friday we talked to the folks at Captive Studio. They were the first to alert us about what was going on. Now the Houston Police Department and the Sheriff's Office are both investigating. Three individuals broke front door, came through the front door, literally came in, went directly to where our cameras were stored, pulled a couple of cameras and some lenses out of there. And then we had a few out because we were getting ready to do some shooting in the following couple of days. And so they grabbed the ones that were out, took those with them, along with the other ones in the back. How fast was it? Under two minutes. They were in and out in under two minutes, and I mean, obviously, I found out about it because of the interview that you guys did with Carrie over there. What did you think when you learned that you were far from being the only studio? Immediately I was like, man, this is the exact same MO, these are the exact same people. The dress that they're wearing is the same, the MO is the same. They are in and out super, super fast. Got through the door really quickly, no issues there, and just moved very fast. This is expensive equipment that they're stealing. That's correct, that's correct. What do you think, what do you surmise, that they're selling it on the street? I would assume that they're either selling it on the street or they're selling it on Facebook Marketplace or any one of a number of places where you can offload equipment like that. It appears that they seem to know where to go when they get in. Correct, yeah. of where equipment is being stored and those kind of things. And so it's just very interesting to realize there's something else going on here. What do you think about that? I mean, it's very interesting. And I mean, the circles that we all run in, there is some familiarity there is, there's some similarity there. But we've been having some conversations since I saw your story. And we've been trying to figure out where is the crossover and who maybe has potentially been to all of these places and would know that and how would they get that information? That's what you're kind of working through right now. Correct, that is correct. Yeah, at this point, you got to make sure you're checking out everyone to see if there's any crossover. So I know in both of these situations is the beginning stages of the investigation. But in terms of the owners, what are they being told by police even about how they can recover some of these losses? Well, one of the things too, I mean, some of them, they have insurance, which that's going to cover that. We understand some of the studios don't. But, you know, Anthony, even for the ones that have insurance, you've got to keep in mind what else you're losing. Let's say you needed those cameras, those lenses for a couple of jobs the next day or the next few days. Well, you don't have that equipment. So not only are you looking at losing the value of the equipment, but you don't have the equipment to basically do your job. And those cameras ain't cheap, Randy. Thank you so much for that report.