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Crime Stoppers says tanks used for welding stolen from Merritt property

Crime Stoppers says tanks used for welding stolen from Merritt property | iNFOnews.ca
Kamloops and District Crime Stoppers says oxygen tanks(left) and acetylene tanks(right) were stolen from behind a Merritt auto parts shop earlier this week. SUBMITTED/Kamloops and District Crime Stoppers

MERRITT – Kamloops and District Crime Stoppers is asking for the public's help in locating tanks used for welding which may have been stolen from a Merritt store.

Crime Stoppers says on its Facebook page that sometime between 10 p.m. and 12 a.m. March 29, oxygen and acetylene tanks were stolen from the gas cage behind the Napa Auto Parts store in Merritt.

The oxygen tanks are green and the acetylene tanks are black. They belong to Praxair and have the company's markings on them.

Crime Stoppers says this is a great financial loss to the owner. If you know anything about this crime, you're asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 800-222-8477.

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Ashley Legassic

Ashley was born and raised in B.C., and recently moved to Kamloops from Vancouver. She pursued her diploma in journalism at Langara College and graduated in 2015. She got her start as an overnight writer for the Morning News on Global B.C. After spending a year there, she decided to follow her passion and joined iNFOnews.ca as a reporter covering court, cops and crime in Kamloops. If you have a story you think people should know about, email her at alegassic@infonews.ca.


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