A sequence of break-ins from a thief dubbed the butter tart bandit are half of a bigger sample downtown, says a enterprise proprietor who desires to see motion.
“We have had greater than these two break ins,” stated Vern Myslichuk, the proprietor of La Vern’s Market. “That is now quantity six… there’s folks up the road which might be coping with points, so it is not simply an remoted incident.”
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Windsor Morning7:38Butter tart thief
A downtown Windsor retailer sells butter tarts which might be so good, one man simply cannot watch for the place to open. He has allegedly damaged in in a single day to swipe the pastries, twice. We discuss to the proprietor of La Verns Market.
The latest break-ins at La Vern’s, on the nook of Pelissier Avenue and College Avenue, occurred within the previous three weeks. Each instances, the thief took solely butter tarts, sparking a little bit of a sensation on-line.
Myslichuk stated he tried to show a detrimental incident right into a constructive by providing up free butter tarts following the theft.
“Everyone was just a little upset about the entire break in and we thought, properly let’s share the butter tarts. If folks [are] keen to go to jail for them, let’s give them up totally free,” he stated.
The second incident, he stated, was each ironic and upsetting.
Windsor police say the identical 47-year-old Leamington man has been arrested in each incidents.
Extra damaged home windows
Jim Arbour, proprietor of Lefty’s on the O, stated his enterprise has been hit a number of instances.
One evening a couple of month in the past, Arbour stated, clients have been sitting by the window when abruptly there was “a big bang and shards of glass sort of flew in all places.”
“So we went outdoors and we discovered certainly one of these lug nuts outdoors.”
Jim Arbour, proprietor of Lefty’s on the O, and Ljubica Cajan of Tunnel Low cost Comfort inform CBC’s Mike Evans concerning the issues they’ve had with damaged home windows.
He stated about 4 hours later it occurred once more.
Two weeks after that incident, he stated his window was hit once more, two days in a row.
“It appears to be they’re hitting the small enterprise locations,” he stated, including it prices about $800-$1,000 to interchange the glass each time.
Ljubica Cajan, at Tunnel Low cost Comfort, stated the glass there was damaged simply earlier than New 12 months’s Day whereas she was within the retailer.
She stated it is irritating as a result of she will repair the window however the wrongdoer might come again and break it once more.
She additionally questioned why small companies within the space appeared to be getting targetted.
Extra enterprise might curb crime, proprietor says
Myslichuk, who owns one other close by enterprise he stated was additionally just lately vandalized, stated that neighbourhood patrols or extra safety might assist handle the problems downtown enterprise homeowners are dealing with.
He would additionally wish to see the town of Windsor take steps to encourage extra companies to arrange store downtown, akin to decreasing taxes.
“I personally consider, as a result of I have been in enterprise a very long time, that if you happen to encourage companies to return downtown, the crime goes away,” he stated.
Simply down the road from La Vern’s at Phog Lounge, there was a window damaged through the fall.
Proprietor Tom Lucier stated on the time that extra helps for psychological well being and addictions are wanted within the space.
“The downtown wants particular care and it wants medical professionals. Nobody would not suppose this. Everybody is aware of it is a difficulty,” Lucier stated.