For the second time this weekend, investigators around the Valley are looking into a rash of business break-ins.

Staunton police say burglaries do happen on a regular basis, but they say it isn't so often that they see a cluster of them like this.

Glass from a broken door is what's left to clean up at the Big Dipper ice cream shop in Staunton, and owner Charles Shaner say it's obvious these intruders were after money.

"That was about the only thing that was taken except for, with me, they took the whole cash register, two cash registers," says Shaner.

However, it's not the small amount of cash Shaner's concerned about, because it's the damage that really adds up.

"It's hard on a small business. With the economy, it's rough enough trying to make it as it is without something like this," says Shaner.

Staunton Police Sgt. Chad Kauffman says small businesses usually aren't as heavily guarded as larger companies.

"An absence of security systems, alarms and video surveillance and that sort of thing. So they're sometimes a little easier to get into," says Kauffman.

He suggests things like surveillance lights, especially those with motion sensors.

"The simplest, the easiest thing to do is just make sure you secure your windows and doors. That's the most cost effective way to keep people out. We call that target hardening. Have quality locks on your doors and windows," says Kauffman.

Shaner is already taking his own new security measures.

"There won't be any money left in the register from now on. It'll be somewhere where they can't find it," says Shaner.

Kauffman says other law enforcement agencies do check in with each other to see if there's a possible connection with break-ins in other places.

"We work together to see if there are similar methods that are being used. Are they using the same points of entry and exit, those sorts of things," says Kauffman.

Staunton police say if you want to find out how to make your business more secure, you can call the department at 540-332-3842 and they'll actually come out and survey your business with you.

You can also call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-322-2017.