Alberta bakery cleaning up after morning smash and grab

CALGARY – Staff at an Airdrie, Alta. bakery are cleaning up the mess left behind by a smash and grab on Monday morning.

Police believe the break and enter at The Avenue Cakery and Bake Shoppe, located in the 660 block of 1 Avenue N.W., occurred just after midnight.

RCMP said the suspects used a rock to smash through the front glass door so they could get inside.

“We have a lot of cleanup to do,” the bakery said in a Facebook post. “We have no glass in our door and the big rock that was thrown through the front door to break in also smashed through our display case.”

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Once inside the store, the thieves stole a cashbox with an undisclosed amount of money.

The business was closed Monday to fix the damage caused by the break in.

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In 2011, the strip mall the bakery is located in suffered extensive damage when a truck barreled through a pair of neighbouring businesses.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Airdrie RCMP at 780-945-7200 or contact Crime Stoppers.