Ottawa Police had laid charges in connection with a string of break-ins in the ByWard Market on Saturday that included a local fashion outlet.
Fashion United on Richmond Road was broken into three times between Boxing Day, 2015 and July, 2016. Their Parent Avenue outlet was struck on the weekend.
Olenka Stepchuk told CFRA's Ottawa Now with Evan Solomon on Monday only a small amount of cash was stolen.
"We have him on camera," she said. "He basically threw a rock through our front door window, ran in, grabbed cash and left. He only got 140 dollars."
However, Stephchuk said the damage to the windows amounted to about two thousand dollars.
Richard Robinson on Sussex, and a coffee shop on Dalhousie were also robbed Saturday morning.
This comes after someone drove a stolen SUV into the front door of Fashion United's Richmond Road location in July. At the time, it was the Stepchuk's third robbery of 2016. The store has had designer handbags and coats stolen over the course of the three break-ins.
Stepchuk said these crimes have caused her business' insurance premiums to skyrocket.
"After our third claim our premiums went up a lot," she said. "So, [the insurance company was] going to drop us entirely and not insure us at all. That would force us to find a new company and, with our history, we would be paying huge amounts of money. Luckily, that didn't happen, but our premiums did go up."
She said she's not going to claim Saturday's robbery.
"I can't have a fourth one on my record, it's not worth it," Stepchuk told Solomon. "I'm gonna eat the two grand. So, how much am I going to have to sell now, to swallow that money?"
On Tuesday, Ottawa Police laid charges against a 44-year-old man in connection with a string of B&Es in the Market Saturday morning, following an arrest on Monday.
Police were directed to a suspect after a residential break-in just before noon Monday. He was arrested without incident.
Luis Rocha is facing one count of breaking & entering with intent to commit an offence, three counts of breaking & entering and committing an offence, four counts of breach of probation, and two counts of failure to comply with recognizance.
Speaking on CFRA's Ottawa Now with Evan Solomon on Tuesday afternoon, Kitchissippi Ward Councillor Jeff Leiper said these types of crimes often follow a pattern and Ottawa Police are working on ways to track them.
"One of the things that the police are putting a real focus on is better analytics to try to understand the patterns of the crime that are happening in real time," he said.
Leiper says businesses can put up visible cameras to help deter criminals, and bars on windows, if it comes to it, to help prevent access.
Stepchuk says they already have cameras and have installed bars on the windows at their Westboro location, at a cost of over two thousand dollars.
"I wish that somehow that could be subsidized, because we're always paying out just to fight the crime that's happening to us," she said.