Posted on 02/10/2023 11:43:00 AM PST by simpson96
Windsor police say they have arrested one suspect in a break-and-enter involving a stolen excavator.
Police say two suspects allegedly used the excavator to break into a business at the 2300 block of Dougall Ave.
The business was Paradise Gaming Centre.
Police say the suspects stole the excavator over the weekend and that they used it to smash a six-metre hole in a wall of the building.
Joan Walker is a resident who lives a few doors down from Paradise Gaming Centre. She is shocked by how two suspects broke into the bingo hall and says unemployment is one of the causes of crime. (TJ Dhir/CBC) Construction crews were on site Tuesday working to repair the wall.
Police say they responded to the break around 5 a.m. on Monday.
A 42-year-old Amherstburg man has been arrested and charged with break and enter and theft over $5,000.
Police are looking for an additional suspect, a 43-year-old Windsor man.
Paradise Gaming Centre did not wish to comment on the matter.
Residents in the area said they were shocked by the oddity of the break-in.
"[It] was pretty ridiculous that they had to go that far to do it, and it's a shame that people are breaking into businesses," said Joan Walker. "It's kind of scary when it's close to home too."
Walker speculated that unemployment might be part of the reason why crimes continue to occur.
"I just think that we need to have better communities, better safety, better areas to go to just feel safe," she said.
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"I just think that we need to have better communities, better safety, better areas to go to just feel safe," she said.
Wonder how she votes...
Quick Leslie Nielsen photo
I can’t only on cellphone 📱 today
All that work for $5K in Bingo money?
Might as well use those digging machines on a real job, not that anyone wants to hire these two right now.
Like blowing up the Sistine Chapel to get a free stolen laptop.
She has 3 basic choices.
NDP....basic communism
Liberal...used to be centre left but almost indistinguishable from the NDP these days.
Conservative...RINO equivalent in the US order of things
When I retire in a year or so i’ll be moving back to Windsor Ont., my mother tells me I won’t be happy back in Canada....................
Is anybody in Canada happy about it?
“Windsor police say thieves used excavator to break into bingo hall”
so, how many badminton sets did they make off with?
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