In the past year and a half since Sebastian & Co Fine Meats opened for business in downtown Vancouver, the butcher shop has been hit by severe vandalism five times.
Owner Sebastian Cortez says businesses like his are becoming increasingly troubled by surging crime rates in the city, which he attributes to the burgeoning drug crisis.
“It’s not like spray paint—it’s like big, massive shattered windows and people coming in here robbing, looting,” Cortez told The Epoch Times. “We’ve been dealing with all of that for a while now.”
In a recent incident on Oct. 3, at around 4:30 a.m., two men smashed the shop’s front window and fled with the cash register, Cortez said….