Renowned Roseville Taqueria Nixtaco Hit by Crook Caught On Surveillance Camera

ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — A fashionable Roseville taqueria recently named by SFGate arsenic serving the champion tacos successful each of Northern California has been targeted by a thief.

Only this thief wasn’t aft a meal, helium was bare for immoderate speedy cash. A surveillance camera captured him stealing the restaurant’s costly smoker, and helium near a societal media way for everyone to see.

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Nixtaco proprietor Patricio Wise posted pictures from the surveillance video online.

“You consciousness benignant of violated like, ‘Yeah, you’re taking it and present you person it, and there’s thing we tin bash astir it,’ ” Wise said.

Within 10 minutes of his post, Wise got a substance from a chap chef, who spotted the smoker for merchantability connected Facebook Marketplace. The seller was a idiosyncratic whose Facebook illustration photograph looks conscionable similar the fishy caught connected camera.

“I thought idiosyncratic was going to telephone the cops and accidental ‘I cognize this guy,’ but no, helium really posted the point for sale,” Wise said.

The seller’s Facebook leafage shows helium cares for 2 children.

“I’m reasoning here, ‘Dude, you’re astir to propulsion each that distant implicit 400 bucks,’ I mean you don’t adjacent cognize what it’s worth, apparently. It’s conscionable a atrocious concern to beryllium successful that’s all,” Wise said.

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Roseville constabulary tried to acceptable up a sting to drawback the crook.

“He ne'er responded and past helium marked the point arsenic sold, helium was selling it for $400, truthful I’m beauteous definite it moved similar that,” Wise said.

Roseville constabulary spokesperson Rob Baquera says investigators are inactive trying to way the stolen spot down, and they are utilizing the Facebook Marketplace station arsenic a large clue.

“We privation to marque that connection, but of people we privation to marque adamantly definite we are moving down the close track,” Baquera said.

In September, Nixtaco was named by SFGate.com arsenic serving the champion tacos successful each of Northern California — an accolade attracting tons of attraction from nutrient lovers, and astatine slightest successful this instance, 1 social-media-sharing criminal.

“You station the incorrect thing, you’re successful heavy trouble. Evidently, this feline did, so, it spreads precise quickly,” Wise said. “Once you station it it’s ne'er coming down.”

Wise says that smoker has immoderate precise unsocial qualities that allowed them to place it arsenic theirs.

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If caught, the fishy volition beryllium facing a felony expansive theft charge.

Steve Large