Missing some gold? How about some rubber?
North Vancouver RCMP are hoping to return some ill-gotten gains to their rightful owners — a rare gold coin and a set of six new tires.
A North Vancouver resident found the coin on June 22 in what police are calling “an unusual setting” and then did the right thing by turning it over to police. De Jong said the coin was likely taken in a break-and-enter and then carelessly lost.
“Sometimes people have property missing and they don’t realize it,” he said. “We’re asking people to check their normal stash...We cannot disclose more information than would be appropriate but certainly, if the person who lost the coin realizes it’s missing and can identify it, we’d be more than happy to return it to them.”
On June 26, officers recovered six new tires from the inside of a vehicle reported stolen from Burnaby. A witness alerted RCMP to an attempted theft in progress around 11 p.m. in the Northshore Auto Mall, resulting in a heavy police search of the area. They found the stolen van abandoned with a set of tires in it a short while later.
After checking with some of the businesses in the Auto Mall, Police say the tires likely came from another dealership or tire business on the North Shore or in Burnaby.
Anyone wanting to claim the stolen items can contact the North Vancouver RCMP at 604-985-1311 but they’ll have to be able to accurately describe the items in detail before police will turn them over.
