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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) — Police have made an arrest after a bizarre early morning burglary.
According to police, Edward Galindo, 18, broke into Custom Computing and held the cleaning crew captive while he trashed the place.
Employees got to work on Tuesday to find their windows smashed and their offices trashed.
“He took and dumped the filing cabinets and pulled the content out of my drawers,” said Steven White.
White’s office was one of those that sustained damage.
“Mostly he just went through peoples’ desks and took change, candy and softballs and for some reason if it was glass he broke it. And then he took a pile of papers on the floor and then lit them,” White said.
Surveillance cameras in the building showed the suspect walking around inside. White said he believes the suspect was inside for around an hour. He never got any information, but he did have a gun.
“He kind of went crazy. He fired off at least five shots. He put a bullet into the vending machines to he could get all the money out of it and he shot a hole in the ceiling. Shot a couple of monitors. Shot the television. Just odd stuff,” White said.
Nancy Trumble is a 20-year employee at Custom Computing. Her cubical was one of the hardest hit.
“When I came I was just… literally had my mouth open. But, luckily a couple of gals had already semi picked it up, so it wasn’t nearly as bad as it was when I got here,” Trumble said.
All of the employees worked together to clean up most of the mess in a hurry.
“As the employees came in, everybody pitched in, started helping each other getting stuff cleaned up and once we got the floors all vacuumed and the glass up we were good to go,” Trumble said.
The people who work at Custom Computing said the place is like home and their co workers like family. They said that bond will help them get through this.
“When you grow up with someone, which a lot of us have done here, you become a family. We spend the majority of our time with these people, so we care about each other a lot,” Trumble said.
Galindo is from Kansas City, Kansas. He faces a number of charges, including burglary, third-degree arson and terroristic threats.
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