Suspect arrested after $55K in 'irreplaceable' books stolen from Victoria shop
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One day after a handful of rare books worth more than $55,000 were stolen from a downtown Victoria book shop, the store says the collection has been returned.
One day after a handful of rare books worth more than $55,000 were stolen from a downtown Victoria book shop, the store says the collection has been returned.
Russell Books was targeted in the overnight theft on Wednesday.
The store said in a social media post that "unwelcome guests" broke into the shop at 747 Yates Street and "helped themselves to over $55,000 worth of antiquarian books."
The independent bookseller boasts a large collection of rare editions housed in glass cabinets inside the store.
Among them are a signed first-edition copy of Walt Whitman's poetry collection Leaves of Grass, valued at $10,000.
Victoria police Chief Del Manak took to Twitter late Thursday night to announce a suspect had been found in possession of some of the books and was arrested.
In a news release, the Victoria Police Department elaborated on the investigation, saying that after the break-in, the suspect had tried, unsuccessfully, to enter a "multi-unit residential temporary housing facility in the 800-block of Johnson Street."
