Shooting over lobsters in small N.S. town prompts call for increased police presence

A lobster buyer successful Meteghan, N.S., is looking for heightened policing aimed astatine organized transgression aft a slug was fired into his location connected Saturday night.

Geoffrey Jobert, proprietor of the family-run Lobster Hub Inc., said contiguous helium believes the onslaught connected his location is the latest illustration of intimidation against immoderate buyers and processors by organized criminals with links to illegal lobster purchasing successful southwestern Nova Scotia.

He says helium did not perceive thing antithetic Saturday nighttime but helium woke up connected Sunday to spot slug harm successful his home, including a spread successful a surviving country sofa wherever helium and his woman sometimes beryllium and chat.

The concern proprietor says helium started receiving threats aft helium began buying lobster last play from licensed, commercialized harvesters who were nary longer consenting to supply their drawback to facilities allegedly purchasing illegally caught lobster.

The RCMP issued a connection connected Sunday saying they had received a study of shots fired and were investigating, asking the nationalist to travel guardant with information.

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Crime statistic provided by RCMP bespeak that implicit the past 2 years determination has been an summation successful assaults and arson intended to harm spot successful Meteghan, including the torching of an RCMP constabulary car earlier this year.

Supt. Jason Popik, the RCMP territory policing serviceman successful the southwest Nova Scotia region, said successful a caller interrogation that “there is organized transgression wrong Meteghan,” and helium says he’s trying to summation the fig of officers successful the town.