BEND, OR -- Bend Police are investigating a burglary at the Reptile Zone on Northeast Greenwood. Owner Jeff Jensen says surveillance cameras caught one man breaking in through the back, after 11 p.m. Sunday. He believes two people are responsible and thinks they've been in the store before. "They spray painted the back parking lot camera, cut the line, found the second camera that they were actually being filmed on a little bit later, cut it," he tells KBND News, "They knew exactly what they were doing, they knew where the animals were." 

Jensen says four animals were taken, including one that wasn't for sale, "They took a very expensive what’s called Leucistic Ball Python - also known as a ‘blue-eyed lucy’ because they’re the only snake in the world that is blue eyed when they’re all white, like that - a very large, beautiful ratsnake, a Pacman and then they also stole a baby rattlesnake that I had back there that’s mine." They also stole supplies, including a snake hook. Jensen says it all totals around $3,000, "I just never felt so violated; and disappointed because it’s obviously someone that’s been in my store, that knew my animals and knew what they wanted. I don’t think this is something they did for resale or profit, because they took cages to go with them." 

Jensen says he's offering a reward for information leading to an arrest, "As of right now, we don’t have a lot to go on except for the one blurry image of the guy. He was wearing a ski mask and a hood, but he’s got a sweatshirt that’s got a logo that’s reflecting in the night camera that I had." More photos are available on the Reptile Zone's Facebook page. He says he just wants his animals back. If the burglars turn themselves in and return the animals, he says he won’t press charges.