Someone broke into the Bowing Green-Warren County Humane Society between 7 p.m. Wednesday and 7:30 a.m. Thursday and stole two safes containing cash, checks, controlled substances, keys and a van.

“It’s very sad that anybody would steal from a nonprofit,” humane society Director Lorri Hare said. “We work so hard for every single dollar that we get. It’s like taking the wind out of your sails. Walking through and seeing the damage, it’s like a punch to the gut. You work so hard to save lives.”

No animals were injured, and no one was inside at the time of the break-in at the facility on Old Louisville Road.

“That adoption center is run solely on donations,” Hare said. “Everything we have to do to fix it is our responsibility. You feel violated.”

Hare took comfort in the fact that the animals and people who run the shelter were not hurt.

“The animals are OK. My staff is OK. Everything else is fixable,” she said.

Hare spent Thursday replacing broken glass, getting the locks changed, buying new safes and making upgrades to the shelter’s alarm system, she said.

Two suspects, whose names have been redacted, are listed on the report taken by the Bowling Green Police Department.

Police told Hare on Friday morning that the shelter’s van has been recovered. But because the thieves stole the master keys, Hare must have the van rekeyed, which will cost additional money.

The thief or thieves stole $1,400 in cash and $8,000 worth of checks from donors. Hare hopes police will recover the checks written to the shelter.

The thieves stole a variety of drugs, including ketamine, telazol, ketaset, tramadol and phenobarbital, according to the police report. Hare is working to provide an exact drug inventory to police.

“We still don’t have an exact count on those, but we will by the end of the day today,” Hare said Friday morning. “Yesterday, our priority was securing the facility.”

Police noted that it appeared that someone forced their way into the facility by using a pressure washer to shatter the glass window of one of the doors. An additional window of a door leading into an office area was also shattered, possibly by a landscape block that was found near the pressure washer outside of the facility, according to the police report. Police also saw tire marks in the grass leading away from the property to a treeline towards Old Louisville Road.

“I’ve been there 17 years, and I’ve never had anything like this happen,” Hare said.

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