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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2020
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Crime spree strikes Foul Bay businesses
Oak Bay resident fined $1,150 for not quarantining
Store, are next door to each other. A knife-wielding man attempted to rob Tomley’s market at about A trio of business owners is 7:45 p.m. on Halloween (Saturday) alarmed after their shops were the night. While it was the most dangertargets of a brazen armed-robbery ous of the three thefts, the owner, and two break-and-enters within who didn’t want to share his name 11 days. out of concerns for personal safety, All three businesses are from the thwarted the theft and tackled the strip of buildings in the 2900-block man, pinning him until Oak Bay of Foul Bay Road, a commercial police arrived shortly after and block that’s been there since the arrested him. 1960s. The three businesses, Tomley’s “He tried to stab me, and he told Market, Dean Heights Hair Salon, me [many times] he would come and Buttons’n’Bows Fabric back and stab me,” said the owner, who believes the 43-year-old lives e v a S nearby. “I screamed for Seniors off help, nobody helped.” Oak Bay Police t se every Firs Chief Ray Bernoties Your purchaof every month. Wednesday said that while police discourage people *Some exceptions from fighting with apply. armed individuals e or st in e se over money there * ils ta de for was no doubt that L WITH L E W E LIV EARN the actions of the POINTS store owner lead to ! VE & SA ng You & For Ever ythi the suspect’s arrest Live Well to ed Ne e venu Your Family ak Bay A O and return of the 00 22 38 0 • m om .cco ave. asve 25 0 -598 -3 aramsa rm haph money. ay yp kb a oa kb w. a w o w The suspect
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Tina Taylor looks through the broken glass of the front door at her business, Buttons’n’Bows Fabric Store, which was broken into sometime over the Halloween weekend. (Travis Paterson/News Staff) lurked in the store as a shopper wearing a COVID mask before he confronted the owner with a knife. The man passed a black garbage bag to the owner and requested he fill it with the cash from the till, which he did. But then the owner fled outside and blocked the thief from leaving through the door from the outside. When the thief tried to stab the owner, the owner was cut on the finger but avoided a much worse injury. Police later released the suspect on conditions.
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Although the cash was recovered from the thief, the family that runs the store is feeling uncomfortable and unsafe knowing he was released. At some point throughout Halloween weekend, there was also a break-in at Buttons’n’Bows Fabric Store. The thief used something to break the front glass door and open the lock. Owner Tina Taylor didn’t know the store had been entered until she arrived Monday morning. Continued A4
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An Oak Bay resident was given a $1,150 ticket for failing to adhere to a 14-day quarantine after returning to Canada from abroad. Oak Bay Police issued the fine after hearing from a number of sources regarding the individual’s behaviour. “We have no reason to suspect this person will breach again,” said Oak Bay Police Chief Ray Bernoties, also confirming there was no reason to believe they didn’t understand the rules. It’s Oak Bay’s first official infringement of the federal quarantine rules created to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, though there have been previous complaints. “We had a similar complaint before but our investigation showed that the person had returned to a different location and quarantined there,” Bernoties said. “Ironically, that person had a traffic ticket which helped show they had been here.” The ticket came on the same weekend that Saanich Police issued a $2,300 fine to a resident for hosting a party that contravened the federal health orders. The quarantine fine is one of the calls Oak Bay Police fielded from Oct. 25 to Nov. 1.
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