Suspect arrested in vandalism at Maple Ridge tea shop, RCMP say [Video]

Two months after a Maple Ridge tea shop was targeted in an alarming act of vandalism, authorities have identified a suspect.

Surveillance video captured a man dressed in black smashing the front window at T’s Once Upon a Tea Leaf in the early morning hours of Sept. 7, approximately one year after a similar incident forced the small business to close for weeks.

Ridge Meadows RCMP said officers arrested a 47-year-old suspect in connection with the latest incident on Friday. He has since been released on the condition that he stay away from the shop.

It remains unclear whether the two acts of vandalism are related.

“This is still an active and ongoing investigation and no further information is available at this time,” Ridge Meadows RCMP said in a news release Thursday.

During the previous incident, on Sept. 21, 2023, some managed to break the windows of T’s Once Upon …