ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Two businesses were vandalized in west Roseville all while raising money for charity.
Around this time of year Kitchen 747 and MoJoe’s are looking a little spooky for the Halloween season. But the scary part here is that they were vandalized twice this weekend.
It all started Friday night when a manager found two kids on the rooftop patio after closing and escorted them out.
“The next morning our manager found broken glass, our light bulbs thrown off the roof,” said Juli Hilton, owner of both businesses.
It all happened early Saturday morning around 3 a.m., and then Sunday around 4 a.m., they were hit again.
“Pumpkins thrown and cracked, more broken glass, broken string lights, plates were thrown off the rooftop onto the street and a six-foot folding table was thrown off the roof onto our covered patio,” Hilton said.
Hilton said it’s only a few hundred dollars in damage, but all proceeds from their pumpkin patch were going directly to charity where a few hundred dollars can mean a lot to a child in need.
“We are raising money for Compassion Planet; they help aged out youth foster kids,” Hilton said.
Hilton said, for the three years they’ve been in business, they’ve struggled with kids being loud, making a mess and disturbing others. She said it’s sad because she created this space with kids in mind as a place for them to go.
“When I opened these places, I was thinking it was going to be a great place for kids to come, hangout, a safe place after school to be. And for a lot of them it is, but for many of them, they are disrespectful to staff and it’s the same 15 to 20 kids and they ruin it for everyone else,” Hilton said.
Hilton said she was also concerned that the teens could have been injured.
Hilton said she spoke with Roseville Police Department, and they are sending the photos to nearby schools in hopes to identify the teens that caused the damage.
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