AUBURN — Who can blame Neil Larochelle for being crabby?

Two Fridays in a row, someone hurled cinder blocks through the window at Always Fresh Larochelle’s Seafood on Mill Street. Two Fridays in a row, Neil has had to sweep up glass and shell out big money to have the window fixed.

In both instances, it was believed the windows were smashed in the early morning hours.

“Nothing good ever happens after midnight,” he said.

The good news this time is that police charged someone. The bad news is that it cost Larochelle close to $1,000 to get that window equipped with unbreakable glass.

“If someone throws a brick at it,” he said on Friday, “it will just bounce right back.”

The trouble began last week on the 12th. Larochelle came to work and found the window smashed out. There were no clues leading to a suspect. It cost him $500 to get the glass replaced.

This time around, there was more drama. A cab driver parked near the business just after midnight told police he had watched a man hurl a cinder block through the glass. The culprit had been sitting under a tree nearby, drinking with a friend, the cab driver reported. After breaking the window, the suspect returned to the tree and continued drinking.

The cab driver called police. When an officer arrived, he found the culprit trying to sneak through the hole he had created. Matthew Grover, 22, of Auburn was issued a court summons on a charge of criminal mischief.

For Larochelle and his family, the broken windows followed a string of bad luck to vex the business since the start of summer.

The closing of Route 136 due to a road collapse in September took its toll on the business, which sits just around the corner from Route 136. Larochelle estimated that business dropped as much as 50 percent when commuters stopped coming through.

“It’s been my worst fall in 10 years,” he said.

The seafood store has been around for 10 years, since Larochelle’s brother traded a fishing boat for the business.