This car was used to smash into the Canna Culture shop at 5435 California Ave SW early Wednesday morning.
photo by Lili Ishi
The Canna Culture shop at 5435 California Ave SW was the victim of a smash and grab incident early Wednesday morning. The shop is part of Canna West Seattle a popular Cannabis shop that was first establshed in this location but moved across the street to a house in 2018. The Culture Shop according to the Canna website "The Culture Shop offers a select inventory of all natural and organic CBD wellness products."
A reader who witnessed some of the break-in shared this via social media:
"Woke up this morning around 4:45 to some kids yelling on California followed by the sound of car alarms, and a huge crash noise, and a kid yelling “OPEN THE DOOR” before seeing them hit the gas outta there. Cops were on the scene in 5 minutes but maybe check if your kids were out late taking Hyundais for joy rides. they were flooring it in what looked like a black sedan northbound on California Ave."
This is one of several crimes of this type this year including Menashe Jewelers, True Value Hardware, Walgreen's near White Center, Big 5 Sporting Goods at Westwood Village and the Shorewood Grocery store.
Westside Seattle has reached out to the owner for more details and will update this story.