West Vancouver Police Department’s storage room is starting to look like a pawn shop, with jewelry and power tools waiting to be claimed.
The department is trying to reconnect some lost and/or stolen goods with their rightful owners.
On Sunday, a resident reported a heap of power drills, saws, grinders and nail guns having been left on a front lawn of a home on the 1500-block of Esquimalt Avenue.
The location is just around the corner from where the police department’s new headquarters are being built. There are also several residential construction projects in the neighbourhood, but a canvas of the nearby contractors found no takers, according to Const. Jeff Palmer, West Vancouver police spokesman.
Investigators ballpark the value of the tools at around $10,000.
“That was a little unusual – just a whole bunch of tools piled on a lawn and not to the knowledge of anyone in the immediate neighbourhood,” he said. “I can’t imagine someone would forget that many tools, whether it’s discarded stolen property or not, I don’t know.”
Then on Tuesday morning, a pedestrian stumbled upon a diamond ring, possibly an engagement ring, while walking through the intersection of 16th Street and Bellevue Avenue.
Police are not releasing an image or description of the ring.
Anyone with information about either of the cases is asked to call the West Vancouver police non-emergency line at 604-925-7300.
