Dan Bertram picked up the pieces of his broken shop window for the second time in the last eight months.
This morning, Bertram woke up to Kelowna RCMP officers knocking on his door to let him know about the smashed window at Bertram & Co. Tattoo and Piercing, as well as his missing 27 inch iMac computer, which he uses for his business.
“It’s not good, I try to see the light … it’s probably someone struggling or something like that. Hopefully, it did someone some good but it sucks, I won’t lie,” said Bertram.
“We all work hard to get down here, pay our bills and we have a lot of, I don’t know, this kind of activity. It’s rough, it’s definitely a rough morning.”
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Kelowna RCMP arrived at the scene of the break-in on Lawrence Ave. at 7 a.m.
“Based on the evidence at the scene, investigators believe the break and enter occurred in the early morning,” said RCMP Cpl. Meghan Foster.
“When police officers arrived, they found the front window to the business had been smashed and computer equipment had been stolen.”
RCMP will be reviewing video surveillance, and will not be releasing it to the media unless it will help advance their investigation.
Meanwhile, at the shop, Bertram’s first clients of the day helped clean up the mess left behind and the tattoo shop owner said he is grateful nothing more was stolen.
“It’s a piece of glass, cost of doing business, you don’t want to let it get you down,” said Bertram.
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