Coffee stand owner posts thieves' mugs all over Facebook: 'So good luck with that,' she tells them

WOODINVILLE, Wash. -- A pair of burglars are on the run after smashing and grabbing their way through a coffee stand just hours before the store opened.

It happened early Monday morning at Country Girl Espresso near Woodinville.

The owner admits she left some deposits inside; she says she was too busy to take care of it because she got married over the weekend.

And thanks to the burglars, this crummy 'wedding gift' has cost her hundreds of bucks.

“My register’s gone, my windows broken, my door’s broken,” said owner Kaitlynn Chaput. “What do you want to wake up to on a Monday morning?”



The brazen burglars tried busting in through the window, but they didn’t have much luck. Surveillance video shows them ducking out of sight when a car passes by.

The thieves finally busted through the back door to get inside, and one of the crooks goes for the register.

Employee Jordyn Robertson first made the unsettling discovery.

“They did it only a couple hours before we opened,” said Robertson. “Barely an hour before we were here. It’s scary.”

The burglars made no attempt to hide their faces and now Chaput has been plastering their mugs all over social media.

“Every day people are sharing your pictures," Chaput said in a message to the thieves. "I’ve already gotten people telling me who you are, so good luck with that."

“They’re not smart,” said Robertson. "Karma comes around and you’re going to get caught."

The damage to the store and the stolen cash cost Chaput about $800. Thanks to the surveillance video, she’s convinced the two will be in handcuffs before long.

“It’s overwhelming the amount of people that have been sharing, been talking, been chatting, trying to get it out there and trying to find these two,” said Chaput.

Chaput says part of the problem is an empty gas station that sits right next door. She says all kinds of strange people are in and out of the parking lot at all hours of the day.

The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office had not made an arrest as of Tuesday afternoon.