Customers at CubeSmart at FM 1960 storage center in northwest Harris County shocked after discovering multiple unit burglaries

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Customers at a storage center in northwest Harris County say they were shocked to discover multiple units had been burglarized.

They say they made the discovery Friday at the CubeSmart on FM 1960 near Highway 290, but CubeSmart staff did not tell them when the burglaries occurred.

“Oh my God. Oh my God,” Marine veteran Cole Bearden exclaimed in the video he recorded while inspecting his compromised unit.

Bearden told Eyewitness News that the thief took priceless antiques, artwork and sports memorabilia.

“It had a lot of my good stuff in it. It’s heartbreaking, man. It really is,” he said.

Marsedez Haughton said she recently returned from training as an Army reservist when she went to check her belongings on Friday and discovered some were missing.

“My storage was ransacked. Everything in it was thrown all over the place. They had enough time to search every storage unit inside and out,” Haughton said.

Unlike Bearden, Haughton said no one from CubeSmart had contacted her to inform her of the burglary. She discovered it purely by chance.

Bearden told Eyewitness News that a CubeSmart employee told him a broken door was the cause of the burglaries.

“It’s hard for me to believe that they don’t have the resources or the money to secure this thing or fix the door,” Bearden said.

He says it cost him more than CubeSmart’s $5,000 protection plan will make up.

“Artwork is one of those things. Believe me, it’s doing better than that damn stock market. “I’m not a dummy,” he said.

For Haughton, there is no value attached to any of the things she holds most dear.

“I have a trumpet. I’ve been playing it since I was in sixth grade. My dad bought it for me and I can’t get it back,” she said.

Eyewitness News reached out to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office for more information about the burglaries but has not received a response.

An email to CubeSmart was also not returned.

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