The owner of an East Los Angeles bakery is out thousands of dollars after a thief snatched the shop’s automatic card reader over the weekend.

Footage captured by the store’s security cameras showed the Oct. 18 incident inside Rene’s Bakery on Whittier Boulevard.

The suspect, a woman wearing a dark-colored hoodie and sunglasses paid cash for the items she bought, but when the person behind the register briefly moved away, the woman is seen snatching the wireless card reader off the counter and putting it into the pocket of her hoodie and leaves as if nothing happened.

Since the incident, the bakery’s owner, Rene Ocampo, told KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo that he’s been defrauded of more than $18,000.

Ocampo believes the woman planned the theft, making sure to pay for what she bought with cash,

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