Kellers Jewellers suffer ‘heart-wrenching’ early morning robbery
NANAIMO — A beloved jewellery store in Lantzville is covered in roughly an inch of smashed glass after robbers broke in early Saturday morning.
Kellers Jewellery owner Joe Keller said his door and display alarms went off at roughly 5 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 21 and RCMP were contacted shortly after. When he arrived at his store, he found the front door ripped open with a crowbar and his french doors smashed with the crowbar and rocks. “We had three, possibly four glass jewellery counters smashed to pieces. There’s close to an inch of glass on the floor.”
He said it was heart-wrenching to step in to his store and see the damage.
“Unfortunately in the jewellery industry you have to take things like this because it’s not an uncommon occurrence.”