D.C. Police are investigating a burglary in which a liquor store owner says someone cut a hole through the wall to enter his business and steal thousands of dollars on New Year’s Day.

Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to a burglar alarm at Roha Liquor on Kennedy Street NW around 5 a.m., according to a police report.

When they arrived at the store in Brightwood Park, officers saw an open door on the left side of the building. Just inside the door, police noticed a large hole that measured two to three feet in diameter. There was also a power tool sitting on the stairs with an extension cable leading up the stairs.

Kassa Aragaw, the store’s owner, told police that the suspect used the hole to get inside of the business and take about $25,000 in cash.

Van Applegate of Fox 5 News tweeted surveillance footage of the suspect.

New Year’s Eve is typically one of the store’s most profitable days of the year, Aragaw told Fox 5 News. “So that kind of loss really hurts very bad.” He said he left the money in the register because he didn’t want to take it with him in what can be “a rough neighborhood” after the store closed at midnight.

Aragaw runs the store with his wife—they’re originally from Ethiopia, according to Fox 5 News. This is the third time the store has been burglarized. No one has ever been caught.

And police haven’t arrested any suspects in this robbery, Aquita Brown, an MPD spokesperson told DCist. The case remains under investigation.

Meanwhile, Aragaw questions what will happen if there are no consequences. “That makes me scared,” he said.

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