Theft
Woman sought in Kamloops theft and fraud
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are looking to identify a person of interest in relation to a theft of a wallet in May. Cpl. Cheryl Bush says a wallet was reported stolen on May 6. Further investigation showed the victim’s bank cards and identification had been fraudulently used. RCMP have released an image taken from security video...
Vernon dog team nabs neighbourhood thief
VERNON - A man accused of stealing from peoples’ boats, cars and garages was stopped in his tracks by the Vernon RCMP’s dog unit over the long weekend. Police received a report of a suspicious man going through cars and yards in the Cranberry Lane area of Middleton Mountain Monday, May 18. One caller reported...
Woman charged for making up story about Christmas break in: Global Okanagan
PENTICTON - A woman whose story of a lost Christmas captured people’s charity and goodwill last Christmas faces a day in court after being accused of falsely reporting the crime. Global News reported yesterday police received a tip shortly after the Dec. 22, 2014 break-in report that led them to believe Jackie Ann Hooper may have lied about...
RCMP investigating potential horse thefts
KAMLOOPS - Rural RCMP officers are investigating suspected horse thefts after responding to calls of fence-cutting in the Cherry Creek area. Staff Sgt. Doug Aird with the rural detachment says the latest incident was last weekend on April 11. Eight horses escaped through a cut fence at a property on Cactus Road around 9 p.m....
Women suspected of Pineview vehicle break-ins await court
KAMLOOPS - Two women accused of breaking into multiple vehicles in Pineview remain in custody pending future court dates. Jaime Colleen Dickson, 38, and Kelly Nicole McGinn, 25, were arrested on April 13 around 3 a.m. after police officers responded to a report of vehicles broken into with several items stolen. A resident in the...
Stolen Lumby vehicle found scorched and shot up
LUMBY - Police are appealing to the public for tips after a stolen vehicle turned up torched and shot full of bullet holes last week. The vehicle, a silver 2000 Audi, was reported stolen from Catt Avenue in Lumby April 6. Two days later, it was found four kilometres up the Noble Canyon Forest Service...
Woman charged in connection with Vernon ATM theft
VERNON - She was caught on camera allegedly stealing cash out of someone else’s bank account, and now six months later, she’s been caught by authorities. Glenda Joan Daku, 53, from the North Okanagan has been charged with one count of theft under $5,000 in connection with the October 2014 offence, which was recorded on...
Vernon thief caught on video not who victims expected
VERNON - Police are looking into an odd theft committed by what appears to be an unexpected culprit — an elderly woman. Footage captured by a Vernon couple’s surveillance camera shows what looks to be an elderly woman making off with a patio table shortly after 6 a.m. on April 3 in the area of...
Cash deposit stolen from Superstore Gas Bar
WEST KELOWNA – Police are asking for help from the public in identifying a man believed to have stolen cash from a gas station Monday afternoon. According to a release from Cpl. Joe Duncan, a suspicious man was seen 'hanging around' the Westbank Superstore Gas Bar around 12:45 p.m., April 6. “When the store attendant...
Crime spree nets Vernon man more time behind bars
VERNON - A Vernon man says he was denied detox services for the third time shortly before attempting to carjack a woman’s vehicle and breaking into a nearby home. David Arthur Bruno Sammartino, born in 1984, was sentenced in Vernon Provincial Court Wednesday, April 1, on two charges of breaking and entering, and one of...
Man arrested for powering licensed grow-op with stolen electricity
CHERRYVILLE - Police found something wasn’t quite right at a licensed medical marijuana grow-op in Cherryville. RCMP say officers were already aware of the legal, 1,200 plant operation in the North Fork Road area, but had suspicions the operator was stealing electricity. Police executed a search warrant at the property March 17 and arrested one...
Suspect sought after attempted truck theft in Salmon Arm
SALMON ARM – Police are still searching for a suspect after a man caught someone attempting to steal his pickup truck early this morning in Salmon Arm. The owner of a residence on 8 Avenue awoke to the sound of his pickup truck being started at 3 a.m., Monday, March 23. When he ran outside...
Lumby RCMP appeal to public after two thefts in less than a week
LUMBY - Police are reaching out for public assistance in solving two thefts earlier this month in Lumby. The first was a break and enter Feb. 8 at Tire Craft on Dyffryn Road. The alarm was set off, and when police arrived, they found the rear door had been forced open and money stolen from...
News software lost in Sportsplex theft
PENTICTON - The news has stopped temporarily, but the music plays on at SO Country Internet radio. A break-in at the Adidas Sportsplex in Penticton on the weekend cost well-known Internet radio broadcaster Dennis Walker his news software program. Early Sunday morning, Feb. 15, Walker was at his studio, which is set up in the...
Stolen ATVs lead RCMP to men from Osoyoos and Kamloops
OSOYOOS - Two men will face charges following the theft of two ATVs and the attempted theft of a UTV as well as an attempted break and enter in the Anarchist Mountain area between Feb. 11 to 14. A utility trailer was also taken from 62 Avenue according to an RCMP media release. They say...