KENASTON—When Katie McDonald was woken by her telephone ringing at 3 a.m. Monday, March 26 she immediately knew something was wrong.

It was the alarm monitoring company alerting her that someone had tripped the security system at the gas station and convenience store, KC Distributors, she runs.

“I won’t tell you the exact words I said…but when you look at the phone and it says ADT, you know what’s happening,” McDonald said.

She immediately went to the service station at the corner of Front Street and Highway 15 in Kenaston to find thieves had broken into the store and stole two cabinets containing tobacco products.

McDonald said an RCMP officer arrived shortly after, at about 3:30 a.m.

The store’s surveillance cameras captured the break-in. One camera is pointed at the door and the video it recorded clearly shows how the break-in occurred. The video shows someone smashing the door’s glass window and then an arm reaching in to turn the lower door lock. The person’s arm wasn’t long enough to reach the lower lock, so another person with longer arms reached in and unlocked the door.

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