Two teens charged with Pro-X burglary

Pro-X employees opened the store Tuesday morning to find it had been burglarized.

Two 17-year-old boys were charged Wednesday with burglary and property damage. 

The boys are in custody in the Kootenai County Juvenile Detention Center.

The teens allegedly tried to destroy computers which they thought contained video surveillance of their crime, however they destroyed the wrong items and Boundary County Sheriff deputies recovered three hours of video and audio evidence to review.

According to Boundary County Sheriff Investigator Dave McClelland the surveillance showed the boys wearing ski masks, they destroyed more than a dozen computers and removed they’re hard drives. It also showed the teens leaving DNA evidence.

McClelland said the hard drives were recovered along with the information they held.

When employees went into the building to open for business the morning of Jan.  24, the place was a mess and computers had been taken apart and stacked in the halls.

Pro-X was closed for the rest of that day while BCSO gathered evidence and to get their computers online in order to conduct business, however it could be a couple weeks before everything is fully restored.

The business re-opened the following morning.

McClelland estimated that there was $15,000 in damages not including loss of business the day Pro-X had to close.