Greensboro bar broken into for second time this year

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Sawmill II Sports Bar was robbed over the summer. This week, someone broke in and vandalized the place.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Mask on, saw in hand and accompanied by two others who rummaged through Sawmill II Sports Bar in Greensboro. 

“What I’m most nervous about now is are they going to try to come back again,” said Sawmill owner Rondelle Hagens. 

They first went for the camera system so this is all the owner Rondelle Hagens was able to capture on surveillance video. 

“They pulled all of the hardware off of the wall,” Hagens said. 

They also broke the ATM, a door and a window. 

All pricey replacements, but Hagens is just happy they didn’t get away with any cash like the thieves did in a burglary 5 months ago. 

Video from outside the bar back in June shows someone carrying a similar weapon from the most recent break-in went in and got away with a safe. 

Hagens wouldn’t share how much they left with but she says it was a lot.

It’s added to what’s already been a tough year.

Hagen lost her close friend Kyle Presnell in April in a hit-and-run crash.

He was a regular at the bar.

The bar even hosted a benefit in his honor.

“You know that and just hurt and my friend Kyle, that no one ever figured out how he died. Then I got robbed and now I’m getting robbed again and he had on a sawmill T-shirt whenever it happened,” Hagens said. “So it’s like, I don’t know if it’s a vendetta or if it’s somebody that has come in here, but we’re a membership-only bar.” 

Greensboro police are still looking for the person responsible. 

Hagens said she won’t have any peace until the criminals are caught. 

“Nothing happened from the last outcome of this happening,” Hagens said. “So it’s very hard to believe im going to figure out who it is.” 

Hagens wishes she could move but her hands are tied.

“I’d like to move to this location. I wouldn’t want to be here any longer if I didn’t have to,” Hagens said. “But I have a lease that I had signed to.” 

Hagens said police haven’t made any arrests in either break-in.

We reached out to police for updates on the investigations. 

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