The owner of Andre鈥檚 Electronic Experts is calling on 麻豆精选 RCMP to crack down on what he described as 鈥渕entally ill, drug addicted street criminals鈥� following a string of recent break-ins that have targeted two of the store鈥檚 local locations.
Owner Andre Blanleil said that two 麻豆精选 stores have had seven break-ins in the past six weeks, resulting in thousands of dollars lost. The most recent incident came on Saturday morning (Oct. 30) at the Clement Avenue location, prompting Blanleil to issue a statement on Facebook.
鈥淚 know there are some truly homeless people on the streets, but we also have a LARGER group that are mentally ill, drug addicted street criminals,鈥� Blanleil wrote in the post.
鈥淥ur staff are having to deal with this daily and that was the main reason we moved our Telus from Bernard Avenue to the new Clement area.鈥�
He called the issue a provincial and federal manner, adding that the RCMP and the courts need to 鈥渟tart doing their job鈥� and protect the public.
鈥淲e need treatment facilities or jail time. Let them choose!!! Just doing what we are doing now isn鈥檛 working for anyone,鈥� he wrote. 鈥淚鈥檓 likely going to get some negative comments about this post, but we need changes. Stop building housing and start building treatment facilities!!!鈥�
Capital News has reached out to 麻豆精选 RCMP for comment and this story will be updated when new information becomes available.
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