Surrey man charged for downtown Nanaimo break-ins
NANAIMO — A Surrey man is charged after taking an allegedly crime-filled vacation to Nanaimo.
RCMP said Olie Alexander Smith, 34 of Surrey, was arrested on Dec. 1 for allegedly breaking into several downtown Nanaimo apartment buildings and cars numerous times at the end of November.
“He was a motivated individual targeting specifically mailboxes and he knew what he was doing,” RCMP Cst. Gary O’Brien told NanaimoNewsNOW.
O’Brien said Smith caused $5,000 worth of damage to the intercoms at one of the apartment buildings and stole whatever mail he could.