It was a brazen armed robbery committed in full view of surveillance cameras.
A mild-mannered owner of a nail salon supply warehouse in southeast Albuquerque was held up at gunpoint by a guy who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted, even with the cameras rolling.
“When I called the cops…they said I look so green, so scared,” said Ryan Le, owner of Nails Depot.
Le said he is so traumatized by being held up at gunpoint that he can barely even sit at his desk anymore.
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“First the time in my life, really scary, someone pointing a gun at my head,” Le said.
On Saturday afternoon, an armed bandit, in full view of surveillance cameras, busted into the warehouse where Le said he was watching a soccer game while waiting for clients to pick up their nail supplies.
“I told him that we have all the cameras here so you better just get out of here because you’re gonna be in trouble…we record everything here,” Le said. “He said he don’t care because he is not from here.”
Within seconds, Le emptied out his wallet but it still was not enough cash for the thief. “He wanted me to take him to ATM. I said, ‘No, I cannot go with you,’.”
In the surveillance video, the two are also seen walking outside together. Le said he actually handed the suspect his car keys and told him to go drive himself to the ATM if that’s what he wanted.
“At that time, I remembered I still have some money in my car so he took that money and left,” Le said.
The thief simply walked off.
Le, on the other hand, is now a few dollars short, physically unharmed but emotionally distraught over why anyone could be so desperate.
“He’s so bold, I think he really, really needed the money,” Le said.
In the seven years Le has owned Nails Depot, he said he has been burglarized twice despite having surveillance cameras, but added that he will no longer keep his door wide open, even during business hours.
