Full pot of menudo among items taken from Mexican restaurant in The Heights, owner says

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A restaurant in Houston Heights was robbed Saturday morning, with the suspects stealing equipment and food, including a pot of menudo, according to the restaurant's owners.

In a post on social media, taco restaurant Tacos Doña Lena said its Heights location on 18th Street was robbed of food, equipment, and merchandise on Saturday. The post also mentioned that the restaurant chain had been robbed before at another location.

ABC13 spoke with Angel Cabrera, who is Doña Lena's son, about the alleged robbery. Cabrera said the incident happened at about 3:50 a.m, when the suspects got into the restaurant by taking out the kitchen window.

According to Cabrera, the suspects took a pot of menudo, a Mexican soup, that was prepared and left overnight. The suspects also took three 24-packs of Mexican Coca-Colas, a rice cooker, and chicharron, Cabrera said. He said that one suspect was inside, handing the stolen items to the second suspect outside the restaurant.

This is the second break-in at this location in two years, Cabrera said. The restaurant has shared surveillance images of the alleged robbery, showing the suspect pulling out the window and taking multiple items from inside.

"I'm very disappointed. Do you know who you were stealing from? We're not a big company. We're just a family just trying to make it through every day," Doña Lena's granddaughter Aliyah Garcia Cabrera said when speaking about the alleged robbery.

According to Cabrera, the restaurant could not serve menudo on Saturday but said that the food item was back on the menu by Sunday.

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