Drycleaners' Customers are Steaming Mad

Imagine taking your clothes somewhere to be drycleaned, then out of the blue the place just closes and your clothes are locked up inside.

That's the situation customers at Island Cleaners find themselves in. Customers told us they took their clothes to the cleaners.

And now, based on what's happened so far, they feel like they've been taken to the cleaners. So they called us at CBS12...hoping we could help them.

"I was devastated!" said Jill Brucker, a customer from Riviera Beach.

Brucker is worried she may never see some of her clothing again.

She dropped off her clothes at Island Cleaners on Military Trail in West Palm Beach.

When she tried to get them up a few days later the place was locked up tight.

"I think it's very unprofessional," she said.

Other customers are also upset. They can't get their clothes back either.

"It's a pretty lousy way to do things," said Chris Weitz, another customer who came to get her clothes, but found the place locked and lights off.

"Well I think the way they're handling it is very bad," said Ismail Koya, a customer who says he and his wife have made six or seven trips there, trying to get their clothes.

All they know is there's a sign on the door that reads: "Under new management. Will reopen next week. Thanks."

Island Cleaners has four locations.

The store in West Palm Beach, another one in Palm Beach Gardens, one in Lake Worth and one in Royal Palm Beach.

All four are closed.

At the store in Royal Palm Beach, the landlord who rented the space to Island Cleaners said they hadn't paid their rent in months so the landlord finally opened up so people could get their clothes back.

There isn't much clothing left on the racks to be picked up.

When we called Island Cleaners, all we got was a recording that says the number has been temporarily disconnected.

Customers say they had no clue Island Cleaners was about to close. They never saw it coming.

"All I want is my clothes back! Whatever they do, I wish them the best of luck, but I want my clothes back. There are other places that I can go," said Brucker.

"I'm just gonna be patient. There's nothing much else I can do," Weitz told us.

We called the landlord who owns the strip shopping plaza on Military Trail, Westchester Square. He rents the space to Island Cleaners, and says he has not been able to reach Island Cleaners either.

But he says as a courtesy to the Island Cleaners customers who want their clothes back,

he'll be at the store at 2800 N. Military Trail Thursday at 12 noon to change the locks and he says customers can stop there at that time to get their clothing.