‘I just want it to end’: Rock-throwing vandals cause $100K damage at B.C. auto dealership

The proprietor of an Abbotsford, B.C., auto dealership is offering a currency reward for accusation starring to the apprehension of a repetition vandal.

“We’re up to $100,000 successful damages,” said Brendon Hall, proprietor and wide manager of the Honda Way dealership astatine the Fraser Valley Auto Mall.

Hall said that since April, idiosyncratic has targeted his concern astatine slightest 7 times, hurling rocks astatine vehicles parked connected the lot.

Each incidental has resulted successful betwixt $7,000 and $12,000 successful damage, according to Hall.

“They volition deed 1 to 4 vehicles successful each incident,” helium said.

“They are typically throwing rocks from offsite … each clip determination is astatine slightest 1 windshield damaged, I deliberation that is their extremity successful the onslaught is to smash a windshield. In the process of doing that, there’s hoods, fenders, pillars, roofs, dented successful the process.”

Worse, helium said the concern is paying retired of pocket, due to the fact that of its precocious security deductibles.

Hall said the vandal oregon vandals look to beryllium specifically targeting Hondas. In 1 case, the attackers ignored a Porsche parked connected the batch portion pelting adjacent Hondas with rocks.

“I consciousness similar it is successful my hands to find a solution. I’ve stayed present precocious astatine nighttime countless nights to two, 3 successful the morning,” helium said.

“I consciousness helpless. Our information institution can’t drawback them, the constabulary can’t drawback them.”

Abbotsford constabulary Sgt. Paul Walker said investigators were moving with the dealership to effort and code the problem.

But helium said the quality of the transgression presents unsocial challenges.

“We person accrued our patrols successful that country and done immoderate proactive stuff, and besides investigated each record that has travel to our attention, truthful that’s from CCTV review, from the grounds that’s retained,” helium said.

“Sometimes these files are hard to lick due to the fact that they are happening successful areas overnight, possibly areas that are not good lit, oregon footage that is captured is grainy.”

Nonetheless, helium said catching the perpetrators was “on the apical of everyone’s minds.”

Hall, for his part, conscionable wants the attacks to stop.

“We truly conscionable privation to enactment this to an end. I would emotion the idiosyncratic to travel guardant and person a speech with maine and archer maine what the contented is truthful I tin resoluteness the matter,” helium said.

“I conscionable privation it to end.”