San Diego business owners react to passing of Prop 36 [Video]

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — On Tuesday, California voters overwhelmingly passed Prop 36, which would create harsher penalties for drug and theft crimes.

San Diego business owners say they desperately hoped this proposition would pass.

Walid Alraheb will be the first to tell you that owning and running a business doesn’t come easy.

He owns three businesses on El Cajon Boulevard: ABC Market and Deli, the Cage Smoke Shop, and Cage Three.

“It’s all over; these people are all over town, and they know exactly what the law is,” said Alraheb about thieves who steal from his store.

In addition to running his businesses, he says that in recent years, he and his employees have also had to keep an eye on thieves coming into the store and taking whatever they want.

“There’s a lot of people that they come, and we can’t even see them because we get super busy …