BALTIMORE — Businesses throughout Baltimore are picking up the pieces after a string of break-ins and robberies.

Baltimore Police say three teens, two 16-year-old boys and one 14-year-old boy, were arrested for 13 burglaries in Hampden, the Central District and Northeast District of the city.

Oliver Alak works at Hampden Tobacco.

"This is not the time to rob. Let's put it this way, we're already suffering as is," Alak said.

Hear Hampden business employees sound off on recent break-ins Baltimore businesses picking up the pieces after string of juvenile burglaries

He told WMAR-2 News that the teens broke into the shop about two weeks ago, stealing the register and around $1,000 worth of products, as shown in surveillance video.

It's something he said the shop can't financially handle

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