Home, vehicle thefts prompt warning to Okanagan homeowners, drivers to lock doors

RCMP are reminding homeowners and drivers successful the Okanagan to fastener their doors, aft a fig of caller thefts were caught connected camera.

Kelowna, B.C., nonmigratory Erica Krauseneck watched successful real-time arsenic a pistillate was caught by her neighbour allegedly snooping astir her home.

“My neighbour connected the near spoke retired to the pistillate and asked if we were expecting her. She mumbled immoderate responses past got frightened off, past my neighbour came and grabbed our Amazon delivery,” said Krauseneck.

Krausenck wasn’t location astatine the clip but was capable to ticker it unfold done her doorbell camera.

“To spot it hap similar that is decidedly unnerving. I’m blessed we person the doorbell cameras,” said Krauseneck.

A West Kelowna resident, portion besides grateful for location cameras, wasn’t truthful lucky.

Last week, a suspected thief broke into Suzanne Casavant’s vehicle, wherever they recovered her store opener and stole thousands of dollars worthy of property, including 2 E-bikes from the garage.

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“We effort to fastener our vehicles each nighttime and we are beauteous diligent with that but evidently they don’t conscionable cheque randomly, they cheque often. We’ve had it hap to our son’s conveyance present before,” said Casavant.

According to the RCMP, determination are tendencies thieves person that radical should beryllium alert of.

“We bash announcement that a batch of times thieves instrumentality the clip to spot whether oregon not determination is video surveillance successful the area, whether oregon not determination is bully lightning successful the area,” said Const. Patti Evans, Summerland RCMP.

“They thin to people vehicles that are successful darker parking tons oregon darker driveways.”