By Staff
October 21st, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
A reader sent us the following:
Halton police said a Burlington senior received minor injuries when her vehicle was stolen as she loaded groceries Wednesday, Oct. 9. At about 10:42 a.m., the 80-year-old was in the parking lot of the No Frills on Brant Street and was loading groceries into her Mercedes sedan when a man approached, said Const. Jeff Dillon, Halton Police media officer.
It’s alleged the suspect got into the victim’s Mercedes and drove away. Dillon said the senior sustained minor injuries from falling as a result of the vehicle pulling away. The suspect is described as wearing black shoes, black pants, and a black sweater.
Car hijacked in broad daylight from the No Frills parking lot on Brant Street.
This is a very frightening incident. To have someone dart into your car and drive it away while you are loading groceries in the trunk in broad daylight shows that the thieves have become more brazen.
This happens in Toronto – and now Burlington?
there’s some validity in Warner’s comment.
armed citizens and open carry are becoming considered options by many.
increased crime rates and person safety are serious concerns .
police are overwhelmed by these brazen thefts and break-ins.
we should be given the right to defend ourselves and our property.
Interesting how the Hamilton Regional Police are bringing back two officer foot patrols in the downtown core in response to citizen concerns and a number of daytime violent acts. My question is: why aren’t Halton Regional Police doing the same?
Because their reputation of safest City in Canada has a lot of bonuses they don’t want to lose. We got the support of the Toronto Mayor for our efforts to show Halton police were ignoring physical, emotional and financial abuse against Halton seniors on a day set to show how prevalent and ignored it is. He sent out a tweet with Anne advising fighting elder abuse on elder abuse prevention day that we will send to Pepper separately later today. Seniors are easy victims of crime given their loss of mobility, muscles and many their life time partnerss etc the car jacking and the case of the senior who had his gold jewelry ripped off him in Burlington are a result of this. Lack of police intervention and indeed interest of the past has lead to what we have now and it will get worse. Kearns is the Police Board rep and this is happening in her Ward we should be hearing from her of any such plans to increase down town police presence.
Editor’s note: The police are doing something – the story will get published before the end of the day.
We need to arm and have open carrry so we can defend ourselves. The police won’t.
Safety and protection of residents and particularly seniors and those with disabilities is not a high priority in Burlington, Halton, Ontario or Canada. In 2018 it was publicly stated at an all candidates meeting that one candidate was told at police officers doors knocked on that the Halton crime statistics were improperly under reported. Something our audits had told us for years as we and victims became examples of shoot the messenger rather than fix the problem.
We have been making our audits of such available to Federal, Provincial and Municipal representatives since the 90’s. The voice of the vulnerable, regardless of how often we speak out is ignored. Effie advised on Hansard we are a strong voice and the Gazzette chronicles there are those who are fed up of hearing it.
There are those who have listened and acted, even this week, and prevented tragedy but they are few and far between. We are hopeful that before 2026 we can get before the public the publication almost complete in our files that tells the story of deaf ears at all government levels of those we elected that shows how we got to this stage with the latest brazen crime at Brant Street No Frills Plaza taking place as it did.