One Lake Country woman woke to find a bunch of children’s items dropped on her property, but she didn’t know who they belong to, so she called the police.
The RCMP stepped in to help reunite the missing items to the rightful owners. And in record time, a Coldstream resident contacted Lake Country RCMP claiming the items.
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Just before 7:30 a.m. on July 2, Lake Country RCMP received reports of multiple abandoned items at the base of a private driveway in the 17000-block of Wall Road. Police responded to the home and seized the large pile of discarded personal belongings.
Among the items was a child’s car seat, a booster seat, a pedal-less balance bike, several clothing items, personal accessories, vehicle floor mats and books.
A CD containing an unidentified family’s professional photographs was also discovered in the discarded items.
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“Despite their efforts so far to connect the likely stolen property to another related police investigation, police have been unable to track down the rightful owner of the recovered property,” Kelowna RCMP spokesman Cpl. Jesse O’Donaghey said.
“Our investigators suspect that the items may have been discarded from a stolen vehicle, and we are certain there is an Okanagan family out there who may wish to have some of these items back,” he said.
The investigators were correct in their assumptions as the Coldstream resident said the family vehicle was stolen. The Ford SUV was reported stolen to the North Okanagan RCMP overnight on Canada Day and the items were believed to be dropped sometime that evening.
The stolen vehicle has since been recovered by police and remains part of RCMP’s ongoing investigation.
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