HOUSTON -- A convenience store owner in northeast Houston hopes somebody will recognize a burglar who has targeted his store several times, KPRC Local 2 reported.

The store's owner released surveillance video of a burglary that happened early Wednesday.

The video shows a man in a silver or gray PT Cruiser pulling up to the Valero station in the 10800 block of Homestead Road at around 3:30 a.m. The man used big rocks to break the glass then went inside to look for cash and cigarettes.

Sam Ali, the convenience store owner's son, said the store has been broken into 10 times since May. Ali said the same man has been seen in surveillance video nearly every time.

During Wednesday's burglary, the thief brought his own trashcan and filled it with packs of Kool and Newport cigarettes, Ali said. He also took a drawer of coins out of the cash register and broke open a quarter-drop machine located next to the front door.

Ali claimed the alarm company is taking too long to dispatch officers to the store.

"Up to eight minutes in some instances," he said.

Ali's father hired a private security guard to watch the store at night, but that security guard admitted he was sleeping during Wednesday's burglary.

Anyone with information was asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.