A rash of break-ins and property crime targeting downtown Nanaimo businesses, has shop owners feeling frustrated and pleading for a break.
Security video shows a person smashing the front windows of the Melange Restaurant in Nanaimo on Jan. 12, 2025.
“And what do you do, right?” said Hyne, who owns and runs ABCB First Aid Training on Terminal Avenue.rash of property crimes and break-ins that have targeted small business“Sometimes it feels like it’s targeted because it keeps happening over and over and over again, and ironically I felt better knowing that other people were victimized, right? Because you know that it isn’t just you,” said Hyne.
“It affects everybody. You go to bed wondering, is this the night the alarm goes at 4 a.m.?” Brousseau told CHEK News on Tuesday.On Monday, Paula McPhee’s home shop, Vancouver Island Refillery, was burglarized and she says the thief got away with the cash register and the cash in it. So McPhee posted online about the loss, and says she was deluged in similar stories.
According to the downtown businesses, the damage that is costing them thousands of dollars in repairs is hitting when they’re already suffering from reduced profits“There’s been so many break-ins over the last few weeks that it’s really impacting all the businesses downtown,” said McPhee.
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