Image: Benanna Bakery / A suspect who allegedly broke into Benanna Bakery at 8985 Young Road in Chilliwack overnight Thursday (Nov. 30) is pictured in this surveillance imagery. The business wrote on social media that its front door window was shattered and broken. Chilliwack RCMP responded to the area of Young Road for this commercial break-in at around midnight early Thursday morning.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Chilliwack bakery burglarized

Chilliwack bakery suffers break-in overnight Thursday

Nov 30, 2023 | 9:38 PM

CHILLIWACK — Benanna Bakery, a popular Dutch bakery selling oliebollen, pastries and other locally sourced treats, is just the latest Chilliwack business to fall victim to a break and enter.

According to its Facebook page and a separate video post, Chilliwack RCMP responded to the bakery at 8985 Young Road late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning for a commercial break-in.

Pictures shared by Benanna Bakery show broken glass both inside and outside the front door in the early morning hours of Thursday, November 30.

Image: Benanna Bakery / Broken glass near the front door of Benanna Bakery at 8985 Young Road in Chilliwack.

The bakery shared surveillance imagery of what appears to be a man with a hat and red mask wearing a black hoodie and grey pants. He seems to be stealing something tangible from the store following the break-in as he leaves the store with something in his hands, possibly a cash register.

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Image: Benanna Bakery

The business expressed disappointment on Facebook with the City of Chilliwack and Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement Association following the break-in.

“Yes, both them (the City) and the BIA need to setup up their game. The so-called QR code that apparently gives the police contact numbers that the BIA setup…the police knew nothing about about it!” Benanna Bakery wrote on Facebook.

Downtown Chilliwack BIA responded to the message by saying, “As I mentioned in my visit there this morning, we are so sorry this has happened to you and others recently. Please know, we are 100% in support of our DWTN Merchants. I emailed you this afternoon so feel free to reach out to the office to discuss the QR program you are referring to.”

Earlier this week, someone shot at the front door of Tydel Foods, a community-oriented retail shop on Spadina Avenue that does a ton of good for the community, seven times. Owned by Brigida Crosbie, Tydel Foods happily distributes donated vegetables and other food items outside its store and keeps its prices low so that seniors can afford poultry and beef at a discounted cost. Tydel Foods, which distributed meals for low-income individuals during the Christmas season in 2022 and helps over 700 seniors a month, responded to the break-and-enter at its store by saying it forgave the perpetrator and said the person was in Brigida’s thoughts and prayers.

“I forgive you and God forgives you,” Crosbie wrote on the Tydel Foods Facebook page.

Earlier this week, Restorative Cycle at 45835 Spadina Avenue had one of its windows broken at approximately 3:30 a.m. early Tuesday morning (Nov. 28).