Crime has flared up at a couple of local business sites this past week.
On Monday, a cloud of pepper spray wafted across a corner of the Pine Centre Mall's parking lot when a dispute inside escalated outdoors.
According to police, two arguing teenaged girls were having a noon hour disagreement inside the mall, took their hostilities outside where, said RCMP spokesman Gary Godwin, "one of them deployed bear spray into the face of the other."
Emergency medical attention was not required for the victim of the painful spray nor anyone who happened to catch wind of it in the vicinity, but charges are nonetheless being contemplated against the one who pulled the trigger.
Early Friday morning, about 1:30 a.m., the Mr. G Store on Gauthier Road and Highway 16 West was the site of a break-in. Police said 60 packages of cigarettes was the target commodity, valued at about $600.
" Surveillance [video] shows an older white panel van, with no windows, and one dark-coloured door," said Godwin. "A male wearing a red bandana, dark pants and a white T-shirt exited the van and entering the business through the front door of the business."
Anyone who knows about this break-in is asked to contact Prince George RCMP as soon as possible at 250-561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS / www.pgcrimestoppers.bc.ca.
