3 men face charges over stolen beer, food and toilet paper, say Burnaby RCMP

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Mounties successful Burnaby, B.C., person recovered pallets of beer, nutrient and capable toilet insubstantial and insubstantial towels to proviso a municipality successful an probe into the theft of shipping containers.

Stolen items recovered successful Surrey warehouse pursuing 6-month invesigation

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 15, 2025 4:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

A semi with stolen merchandise successful  the back.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars worthy of stolen merchandise was seized connected Feb. 20, 2025, RCMP say. (Burnaby RCMP)

Mounties successful Burnaby, B.C., person recovered pallets of beer, nutrient and capable toilet insubstantial and insubstantial towels to proviso a municipality successful an probe into the theft of shipping containers. 

RCMP accidental successful a quality merchandise that 3 containers that held merchandise worthy astir $125,000 were stolen past August from a concern successful the city. 

They accidental the bare containers were recovered connected a spot successful adjacent Port Coquitlam a week later, but nary arrests were made.

A warehouse afloat  of pallets.

Pallets of beer, food, toilet insubstantial and insubstantial towels were recovered successful a Surrey warehouse aft a six-month probe by Burnaby RCMP. (Burnaby RCMP)

Blue and achromatic  boxes connected  pallets.

The probe into hundreds of thousands of stolen items is inactive ongoing, Burnaby RCMP told CBC News successful an email. (Burnaby RCMP)

Then, successful November, constabulary accidental different instrumentality was stolen from the aforesaid concern with astir $60,000 worthy of goods. 

Police accidental they utilized a warrant to hunt a warehouse successful Surrey successful February and recovered a semi-truck, forklift, 51 pallets of toilet paper, 42 pallets of insubstantial towels, 2 pallets of brew and 5 much of food. 

The RCMP says 3 men, ranging successful property from 40 to 54 and each from the Lower Mainland, look galore imaginable charges, including theft, trafficking successful spot obtained by transgression and possession of spot obtained by crime

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