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[pontcanna]

Thousands in cash and product stolen in Victoria cannabis shop heist

September 22, 2021

 

 

Pacificanna's co-owner believes the robbery was elaborate and premeditated as the suspects entered through the vacant building next door.

Security camera footage captured two people breaking into Pacificanna Victoria Jubilee early Monday morning.

“I thought it was a bad joke,” said Darren Saunders, Pacificanna co-owner.

 

The store’s Fort Street Location, opposite Royal Jubilee Hospital, opened just last month. Saunders says the thieves made off with a safe full of cash along with a large amount of varied cannabis products.

“Many, many thousands in cash and product,” said Saunders. “They hit the wall in the perfect spot to be in our storage room, which was very suspicious.”

According to Saunders, two people broke into the vacant building next door at approximately 5:30 a.m. on Monday. Saunders says they jimmied the vacant building’s back door, an area which is hidden from public view. Camera footage then shows the two burglars using an assortment of tools to break through a wall, creating an opening to Pacificanna’s storage space.

“They came prepared, they had what they needed to cut through studs, drywall, and push their way in,” said Saunders.

 

Saunders says they were in and out in just a few minutes, avoiding the store’s alarm sensors. Despite the suspects’ faces being covered, Saunders hopes someone can identify the intruders.

“Just wanted to get the face out there to make everybody aware, because it’s unfortunate all around,” said Saunders. “It’s a lose-lose, really.”

VicPD say they have yet to make an arrest and anyone with information is asked to call Victoria police at 250-995-7654.

Saunders says the business does have insurance and they’ve since improved the store’s security system.

 

[Dexter]

Too much paperwork apparently.

maybe we need police body cameras so we or the board knows more about what goes on.

why has they never been talk of that here?

[pontcanna]

Surveillance Video Released As Witnesses, Suspects Sought In Hate Crime Investigation

 

YouTube videos: https://www.youtube....h?v=UUU8PnHjd04

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Date: Thursday, September 23, 2021 - File: #21-900834

 

Victoria, BC – Investigators are seeking information, including asking witnesses recorded on surveillance video to come forward, as part of an investigation into a hate crime in which a downtown Victoria church was targeted.

 

Just after 11 p.m. on Sunday, September 12, 2021, two people were caught on surveillance video damaging St. Andrew’s Cathedral, which is located at the corner of Blanshard and View streets. Two cameras located outside the church captured both the suspects in the act of damaging the church and witnesses who directly observed the damage taking place. In one of the pieces of footage, a male witness is observed speaking with one of the suspects.

 

In this video, captured in the 700-block of View Street, a suspect is seen damaging the church and the male witness is seen speaking with the suspect whom they appear to observe in the act of damaging the church. The male witness is then approached by a second suspect who appears to be acting as a lookout for the first suspect. This video is below.

 

 

 Video footage showing suspects damaging church on View Street, male witness approaching and interacting with suspects

 

Investigators are looking to identify and speak with this male witness. This person is not believed to be a suspect in the hate crime investigation.

 

 

Video Footage Male hate crime witness

 

In this video, captured in the 1200-block of Blanshard Street, the primary suspect and the secondary suspect, again acting as a lookout, are observed damaging the church. A female witness is seen walking past and observing the incident.

 

 

Hate crime suspects Blanshard Street 

 

Investigators are looking to identify and speak with this female witness. This person is also not believed to be a suspect in the hate crime investigation.

 

Female hate crime witness

 

The two suspects damaged the 19^th-century church during the same night that several other similar acts of vandalism occurred in Oak Bay and Saanich. Targeting places of worship for political purposes is against the Criminal Code of Canada and not welcome in Victoria or Esquimalt. The nature of the targeting and some of the vandalism meets the standard for investigation as a hate-motivated incident or hate crime. Officers are looking to identify and speak with the two suspects.

 

If you have information about this incident, the suspects, or the two witnesses, please call the VicPD Report Desk at (250) 995-7654 extension 1. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

 

 

 

[Nparker]

If I had to guess, no one is ever going to be convicted of a hate crime for the attacks on local churches.

[rmpeers]

If I had to guess, no one is ever going to be convicted of a hate crime for the attacks on local churches.

Isn't it kind of a free-for-all now in Victoria in terms of vandalizing or destroying things? In any case, we can't expect the mayor and 4 or 5 councillors to shoulder the entire burden of destroying the city.

[Victoria Watcher]

when police treat the incident “as a hate crime” does anyone know what that means in terms of the investigation? just more resources?





Victoria police are treating vandalism of the St. Andrews Cathedral in downtown Victoria on Sunday, Sept. 12 as a hate crime.

Surveillance cameras captured two people involved in the church vandalism, which occurred just after 11 p.m. VicPD said in a release the nature of targeting the church and some of the vandalism meets the standard for investigating the incident as hate-motivated or a hate crime.

https://www.vicnews....-a-hate-crime/#

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 September 2021 - 03:37 AM.

[A Girl is No one]

when police treat the incident “as a hate crime” does anyone know what that means in terms of the investigation? just more resources?





Victoria police are treating vandalism of the St. Andrews Cathedral in downtown Victoria on Sunday, Sept. 12 as a hate crime.

Surveillance cameras captured two people involved in the church vandalism, which occurred just after 11 p.m. VicPD said in a release the nature of targeting the church and some of the vandalism meets the standard for investigating the incident as hate-motivated or a hate crime.

https://www.vicnews....-a-hate-crime/#

has the mayor commented on this hate crime?

[Nparker]

has the mayor commented on this hate crime?

She won't until she figures out a couple of things:

- how to use the incident to her advantage

- how to ensure her/words actions can't be directly linked to causing it

[sebberry]

Did we figure out The Wade axe incident?

[Nparker]

Wade Axe Incident are headlining next years' Tinto Rocks Festival.

[Victoria Watcher]

Did we figure out The Wade axe incident?

 

Let's check in with Levi and see if he knows:

 

https://youtu.be/Vv5RHAt8z68

 

^ Levi sells his car to a dealership on Friday for $4k.  The dealer puts it on the lot on Monday for $14k.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 September 2021 - 08:42 AM.

[Love the rock]

She won't until she figures out a couple of things:

- how to use the incident to her advantage

- how to ensure her/words actions can't be directly linked to causing it

Does she feel it’s justified ? We heard more about the guy who sprayed pained over  the offensive art work berating the cops in bastion square. 

Interesting isn’t it .

[m3m]

Let's check in with Levi and see if he knows:

 

https://youtu.be/Vv5RHAt8z68

 

^ Levi sells his car to a dealership on Friday for $4k.  The dealer puts it on the lot on Monday for $14k.

 

You have an unhealthy obsession with these two. 

[Victoria Watcher]

Oh I don’t know. 30,000 people watch each of their videos.

[Mike K.]

I don’t have the time to watch the full video now, but what happened in that transaction? Did they take the car to a dealership and take the price they offered them to unload the car, without buying another, or?

[Mike K.]

Usually you have some more pull with dealers when you re-buy. You also buy with whatever you sold for as non-taxable on your trade-in valve (so no tax on the $4,000 of another vehicle’s purchase price).

[Victoria Watcher]

they discovered the car was some type of crash repair so they did not want to unload it on another consumer so they felt they’d sell it back then the dealer. And the dealer would maybe repair it. but the dealer just shined it up and put it on the lot. There was no trade in.

[spanky123]

they discovered the car was some type of crash repair so they did not want to unload it on another consumer so they felt they’d sell it back then the dealer. And the dealer would maybe repair it. but the dealer just shined it up and put it on the lot. There was no trade in.

Yeah but they never told the dealer it was a lemon either!

Love how some people think. Happy to bash business but forgive individual behaviour!

[pontcanna]

Man charged with firearm offences after traffic stop in Nanaimo

 

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A 29-year-old man is facing firearm offences after a mid-evening July traffic stop in Nanaimo yielded a cache of arms and drug paraphernalia.

Declan Briggs O’Reilly, born 1992, is expected to appear in Nanaimo provincial court Sept. 28, has been charged with seven firearms offences, including possession of a firearm while prohibited.

The charges result from a sharp-eyed RCMP officer noticing a white Lexus with a suspected prohibited driver sitting behind the wheel as the car came toward police July 25.

An inventory search of the vehicle resulted in the discovery of a bulletproof vest, a loaded, sawed-off 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun, rifle and ammunition — shotgun shells and two loaded rifle magazines.

Officers also found what appeared to be a pipe bomb.
 

More: https://www.timescol...aimo-1.24360334

 

[pontcanna]

It’s been 20 years since Jesokah Adkens, 17, vanished without a trace

Times Colonist - 26 Sep 2021

 Clayten and Jocelan Adkens, parents of missing Jesokah, in 2008, seven years after their daughter went missing.

Cars and trucks rumble by the faded memorial on the side of the winding highway into the village of Sooke.

Twenty years ago, this site on the shoulder of the road was a bus stop where blonde, blue-eyed, 17-year-old Jesokah Adkens was seen for the last time.

It would have been dark and quiet at that bus stop around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2001, with nothing around and long waits between buses. And Jesokah, who looked young for her age and was known to hitchhike, was alone.

She vanished without a trace.

It was Saturday before her parents knew she was missing. The teenager had recently moved into her own place but remained on good terms with her parents. Clayten and Jocelan Adkens thought it was unusual when they didn’t hear from her on Thursday. On Friday, Jocelan went to the house to check on her, but she wasn’t there. On Saturday, they talked to her roommate, who said she had not seen Jesokah since Wednesday.

Police immediately suspected foul play. Jesokah had left her backpack, identification and beloved German shepherd pup Daphne at her house. Money in her bank account was untouched.

Jesokah Adkens

 

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