A9 - Wednesday, March 17, 1982 - North Shore News

Theft victims’ hunch paid off
Trio nabbed for
parking a thefts

A SIXTH SENSE nagying at a North Vancouver
couple whose stereo system was stolen from a van
last Week led to the arrest of three vouths on theft

charges.

The couple were Iving in
bed at about + SO am last
Tuesday. lamenting the loss
of their $1800 stereo which
had been stolen the previous
might trom their van parked
in the underpround = lot
beneath the highrise they
live in at 14> St
Avenue

The thought occurred to
them to po down and check
the parking lot | justin case
the thieves might have
returned for more

Thes pot dressed and went
down to the parking level
Where they found three
vouths breaking into a car

The thieves took off with
the male resident of the
highrise in pursurt while his
girifriend called the ROMP

A pole

Georges

officer whe
arrived arrested one youth in
the area of the parking Jot
The highrise resident kept
up his chase of a second
youth and tinally caught him
on bsplanade where he ted
him oup sith the help of
another man

RCMP arrested
the third suspect and found a

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car deff in the underground
parking area had about
$8 OOO worth of stolen items
inside

Arrested were mo 16
vear-old youths one from
North Nan and one) from
Burnaby and an} vear-old
from Burnaby

Investigations showed
about 20 vehicles had been
broken into that evening at
the St Georve s Address at
240) Mahon and at several

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ether underground parking
lots in the Lower Lonsdale
ared
Underground
areas in

parking
Lonsdale
have become prime targets
for thefts. vandalism and
arson. Of the 1.100 com-
plaints received by police
last year concerning vehicles
broken into and vandahzed
in that area. two-thirds of
the incidents occurred in
underground parking lots

RCMP have noticed that
areas such as Burnaby.
where the majority of un-
Jderpround parking lots are
protected by locking doors.
do not have the same degree
of problems

Of those who have been
apprehended in North
Vancouver for break -ins to
cars in underground parking
lots. many have come from
Vancouver, Burnaby and
other areas off the North
Shore

A North Wan
Spokesman notes Tt poes to
indicate that these oun
derground parking lots make
cdsy pickings if you pet
people coming in from other
areas forthem |

ROMP are conducting a
local Campaign inan attempt
to persuade building owners
to install lockup doors to
underground parking areas
to lessen the crime risk

Lower

RCMP

Owners of at least three
buildings have heeded the
advice in the past month and
have had steel doors fitted
says the ROMP spokesman

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