White Rock RCMP believe they have busted a bandit with a taste for beer – and a soft spot for a particular Marine Drive fish and chips venue.
Just before midnight on April 12, a pair of observant promenade walkers saw a man dressed in black breaking the side window of Montgomery's Cottage Lunch restaurant on East Beach.
After watching the man enter the restaurant they called police. Officers arrived on the scene, where they found and arrested a suspect inside the restaurant.
Cst. Janelle Shoihet said subsequent investigation has linked the break-in to three others at the same location, in February, March and earlier this month.
In each incident, cash and tools – and beer – was taken.
Charged with four counts of break and enter is Hermann Honig, 47 of White Rock.
Honig is scheduled to appear in court on April 23.