Oakland businesses plead for help after office space break-in near Hegenberger NBC Bay Area [Video]

The office building on the end of Collins Avenue off of Hegenberger in Oakland was the target of a break-in Saturday morning. The building is an office space that houses 16 small businesses and local organizations, according to Ken Houston, a partial owner of the building.

Surveillance video from one of those offices shows four people breaking in and rifling through the office Saturday morning. The building itself is full of shattered glass from where Houston said the thieves kicked down windows and doors.

Houston is also the director of the nonprofit Beautification Council which has office space in the building. He believes thieves got in through a fence, broke into the building and then ransacked each of the offices.

NBC Bay Area crews walked around the office space with Houston and saw a podcast studio with equipment taken, files and paperwork scattered in the offices, and wooden doors broken …