A small community in a tiny Scottish island named Canna has been in a shock due to its first crime in about five decades — a theft from its only shop. The island’s community shop, which sells gifts, crafts and groceries and is staffed by volunteers, was ransacked. The building is usually left unlocked overnight to allow fishermen to use its free Wi-Fi and to buy what they need while resting at the pier overnight.

Canna, a tiny Hebridean island off Scotland’s coast which has a population of just 26, normally has a crime rate of zero and has no police station or even a special constable. Canna is the most westerly of an island group called the Small Isles. In an unusual incident on the island, thieves cleared the shelves of the store and made off with sweets, chocolate bars, coffee, biscuits, toiletries and batteries.

Canna, which is the westernmost island of the Inner Hebrides and has a population that has settled at fewer than 20 in recent years despite attempts at repopulation, normally enjoys a crime rate of zero. The nearest police station is on the mainland in the town of Mallaig.

The last time a theft was reported on Canna is believed to have been in 1960s, when a carved wooden plate was stolen from Rhu Church. That case was never solved.