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Williams Lake business break-and-enter 'a strange' one

Accounts manager Andrew Sandberg said only a monitor was taken

A break-and-enter and theft at Sandtronic Business Systems in Williams Lake has the account manager shaking his head. 

"This is a strange one," Andrew Sandberg said Monday, April 21 after showing the Tribune where a man broke in through a window just before 1 a.m.

Security footage shows a man clad in black with a face covering entered through the broken window, walked toward the front of the store, picked up a monitor inside a box and walked out the back door, Sandberg said. 

Sandberg said the monitor is worth about $300 and there were many items worth much more throughout the show room and the repair area. 

"Nothing else seems to be out of place," he said. 

An alarm system in the store notified the alarm company who contacted the Williams Lake RCMP. 

"The police showed up about 10 minutes after it happened so they were pretty fast with their response time. It was 12:53 when the glass broke and at 1:09 is when the police came through the same window." 

Sandberg's phone was on silent so he did not hear a call from the alarm company or the RCMP altering him to the break-in. 

He learned about it later when the RCMP showed up at his home at around 2 a.m. 

In recent days, there have been fires lit behind the store as well, Sandberg said. 

"Garbage has been taken out of the dumpster and lit on fire." 

 

 

 

 



Monica Lamb-Yorski

About the Author: Monica Lamb-Yorski

A B.C. gal, I was born in Alert Bay, raised in Nelson, graduated from the University of Winnipeg, and wrote my first-ever article for the Prince Rupert Daily News.
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