Calgary men look for answers after storage locker break-ins

Two Calgary men are hoping to soon get immoderate answers aft immoderate of their astir prized possessions were stolen from their retention lockers implicit the holidays.

Matt Thomas and Heath McCoy said they were each storing spot astatine abstracted Sentinel Storage locations successful Calgary erstwhile they were breached into past year.

“It felt similar I got kicked successful the stomach,” Thomas said.

Thomas — who said helium checks successful connected his locker astatine slightest erstwhile a period — said idiosyncratic had breached into his locker by prying the trim disconnected the partition that was holding the fastener adjacent to the portion door.

“The fastener was inactive connected determination — it wasn’t cut,” helium said.

Inside the locker, Thomas said helium stored retired Lego sets, watches, machine monitors and different items. He said his cherished postulation of comic books from his puerility is besides gone.

“They conscionable noticed the magnitude of things I had successful there, and they conscionable took everything,” said Thomas, adding helium estimates the worth of what helium mislaid to beryllium astir $8,000.

Heath McCoy was storing comic books wrong a retention portion connected Manning Road N.E. He said it was breached into connected Dec. 23, and that helium believes the thief was successful and retired precise quickly.

“I deliberation it indispensable person been random due to the fact that helium conscionable benignant of came virtually successful and retired successful 5 minutes,” helium said. “Nobody would person known what I had successful (the retention locker).

“He chopped the latch, helium had a scooter lone — weirdly capable — and got 3 boxes.”

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McCoy said his postulation contained rare, irreplaceable issues of Batman and Captain Britain comics that helium has valued astatine astir $5,000.

“It’s conscionable a soiled happening to do,” helium said. “It’s thing that had a large sentimental worth to maine arsenic well.”

Global News reached retired to Sentinel Storage for a connection astir what happened.

“Our facilities and clients’ information stay our highest priority,” the institution said.

“While we cannot supply circumstantial details astatine this clip owed to privateness considerations and an ongoing investigation, we are moving intimately with and afloat co-operating with section police.”

McCoy said helium continues to catalogue the comics helium has mislaid for his security claim.

“I would alternatively person the comics back,” helium said. “If we tin get the comics back, I would emotion to person the comics back.”

Police confirmed the thefts are being investigated.