Two Oak Harbor business owners came to work Tuesday morning to discover windows broken and items missing from their stores.

Walt Daspit, owner of Enterprise Computer Services, wasn’t the first to know about his problem. A neighboring business called police, who then called Daspit and told him what had happened.

Burglars broke the bottom pane of a glass door, crawled over the fragments of safety glass and grabbed three laptop computers sitting on a desk.

“They threw a rock through the door,” Dapsit said, shaking his head at the damage.

There was irony in the fact that the alarm system Dapsit installed to deter burglars didn’t work for them, but it did go off when police entered the store.

Dapsit figured he must have aligned the motion detectors incorrectly. The system worked when the police entered, but not until they reached the rear portion of the store, further than the burglars had to go to snatch the two Dells and one Hewlett-Packard.

It’s the first break-in since Daspit opened his store more than three years ago. It’s located at 2705 SE Cabot Drive, behind Domino’s Pizza. He plans to enhance his burglar alarm system and work on realigning the motion detectors.

“It was quite an eye opener this morning,” he said of the experience of being burglarized. “It’s very disconcerting.”

Terrill Simecki was experiencing a similar feeling at his store, Gizmo’s Boardshop, on Midway Boulevard. He came into work Tuesday to find a window shattered and several items missing, including a few skateboards, accessories and clothing. He estimated the retail value of his loss at over $1,000.

“I just walked in and thought ‘oh man, not again’,” Simecki said. It was the third time his shop has been burglarized since he opened four-and-a-half years ago.

Oak Harbor Police Captain Rick Wallace said Tuesday morning that it was too early in the investigations to determine if the burglaries were related. “It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a commercial burglary,” he said.