CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C- A local business owner came to work on Thursday morning to find her plants stolen in the night, and it’s an act she thinks was planned.
D’Arcy J. Frankland, owner of the D’Arcy J. Frankland Notary Public in Campbell River, said at least 15 large plants were stolen from outside of her office Wednesday evening.
“They took those plants and they loaded them up, it wasn’t random vandalism, they planned this,” said Frankland.
“You could tell, because you could see wheelbarrow marks over everything. They even stuck a wilted lilac bush in one of the holes they left. It still had the roots intact, you could tell they pulled it from their yard or whatever.”
The notary public, which has been at that location for 25 years, had been working on beautifying the office grounds for 3 weeks.
According to Frankland, she was in the office until 8:30 pm on Wednesday night, and when she arrived at work on Thursday morning, much of her landscaping work had been undone.
“I personally was involved with replanting everything,” said Frankland.
“When it was finished everybody was admiring it and commenting on it, while I was planting it on the weekend, people would stop by and talk to me.”
It wasn’t just hard work that was lost, Frankland said some of the plants had sentimental value as well.
“One of the shrubs that they stole was a Camellia plant, that was given to me after my father passed away,” said Frankland.
“It was out the window of my meeting room, and we always looked at it, all of us, looked out at it and admired it. They even took that.”
The notary public said she’d heard about another incident of plant theft in town.
“A friend of mine came to work this morning to find that all the hanging baskets had been stolen,”said Frankland
“They just bought this property for their business in Campbellton and they’ve been working very hard to pretty up the space around it.”
The business could not be reached for comment.
Frankland said though she had video surveillance with some information, she didn’t want to give out any descriptions as of yet.
She added that she did speak to the RCMP and that they had been helpful.
At the time of this publication, the RCMP could not be reached for confirmation.
