#62: HOME INVASION SUMMER ☀️

🚓 CRIME - Guelph man smashes neighbour’s face, A/C unit with hammer during home invasion

👪️ BUSINESS - Family of five arrested for lifting over $4,000 in jewelry from Calgary store

🌇 GUELPH - Guelph woman wielding baseball bat wanted for assaulting, threatening strangers

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In today’s issue we’re back in Guelph, Ontario, where it’s a home-invasion summer.

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A Guelph man was arrested early Wednesday after allegedly hitting his neighbour in the face with a hammer during a home invasion.

Police say the 21-year-old broke into his neighbour’s apartment just after midnight and woke his neighbour after smashing the air-conditioning unit.

The neighbour “awoke to find a man in his unit holding a hammer.”

“He was struck in the face with the hammer and briefly strangled before breaking free and fleeing the unit,” say police.

Once outside, he found his vehicle “extensively damaged with all the windows and lights smashed.”

Police arrived and arrested the 21-year-old intruder. The men are known to each other.

The man hit in the face with a hammer was transported to a hospital for treatment.

Five members of the same family are facing charges after pulling off a $4,000 heist at a jewelry store in a Calgary mall.

A 16-year-old girl and eight-year-old boy allegedly stole the jewelry on June 17 while several of their older siblings distracted the employee behind the counter.

The employee didn’t realize anything had been stolen until after the family had left.

Police quickly found the eight-year-old and 16-year-old and their older family members elsewhere in the mall.

The rest of the family was found in a truck in the parking lot.

“It was determined that the truck was stolen and a subsequent search recovered more stolen items from other stores,” police said.

A 16-year-old girl, 17-year-old boy, 25-year-old woman and 34-year-old woman of the same family are facing charges.

Police released two children, aged eight and nine, to the custody of their father, who was not charged in the incident.

_{Source: CTV News}

A Guelph woman is wanted after allegedly roaming the streets and hitting or threatening to hit strangers with a baseball bat.

Just after 2 AM on Wednesday morning, police received a call from a woman saying she’d been threatened by another woman with a baseball bat near Gordon Street and Nottingham Street.

She said the woman asked to use her phone, and when she refused, the woman removed a green and black bat from her backpack and uttered a threat while briefly chasing her.

Later that night, police received a second call from a man saying he’d been struck. When police arrived, they found the man with a large bump on the back of his head. He was brought to a hospital for treatment.

Police believe the incidents are connected.

The bat-wielding woman is still at large.