PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- A masked thief targeted a Pasadena coffee shop early Thursday morning, smashing through a window and walking away with the store's cash register -- and the whole thing was caught on camera.

This is the third time Highlight Coffee has been robbed since opening six years ago.

Security cameras captured a fast-moving burglar during an early morning break-in. The video shows him shatter the front window and climb through. Then, he walks behind the counter of the coffee shop and grabs the cash register.

The alarm went off seconds later as he escaped.

"This is the third time that it's happened, so you know, we kind of knew what was happening," the owner, Frank Kim, said.

Kim rushed to his business after being woken up by the alarm company.

"He broke the window, k

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