Crime Stoppers digs for stolen excavator details

PENTICTON — A thief dug out an excavator from Pacific Rim Equipment's yard in mid-May and Crime Stoppers wants it found before its sold.

On the night of May 11-12 an unknown person stole a yellow and black Yanmar excavator, including its bucket, from Pacific Rim at 1698 Dartmouth Rd. It is valued at several thousand dollars. Anyone seeing a similar piece of equipment on any job sites or elsewhere is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or www.sostips.ca.

Should information lead to an arrest, the tipper might qualify for a cash reward up to $2,000. Crime Stoppers staff remind the public it is not a police program, does not use call display and only wants information.

To contact a reporter for this story, email Shannon Quesnel at squesnel@infotelnews.ca, call 250-488-3065 or tweet @shannonquesnel1

An excavator was stolen from Pacific Rim on Dartmouth Road in Penticton in May. | Credit: Source/Google

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