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Snowmobile, ATV stolen from locked yard in North Okanagan

A screenshot showing a white truck, covered with a black tarp, hauling away the two stolen trailers. Submitted

A brazen theft in the North Okanagan last weekend has left a woman stunned that her property could disappear without a trace.

Video surveillance in Lumby, B.C., on Nov. 25 shows a truck pulling out of a yard around 7 a.m., apparently heading towards Vernon with two stolen trailers in tow.

A screenshot from security video showing the white truck towing the stolen ATV and snowmobile. Submitted

“They broke into the fence, it’s a locked compound,” said Loretta Mulligan. “They hooked up my ATV trailer, my sled trailer. One had the ATV on it, one had the (snowmobile) on it.

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“They attached those two trailers together and they hooked them up to their truck.”

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The truck was covered in black cloth, with a small hole cut out in the front so the driver could see through the windshield.

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Mulligan said both trailers had locks on them, “and the compound had a lock on it as well. The individual obviously knew what they were doing.”

Anyone who may have seen a white truck hauling two trailers with an ATV and a snowmobile is asked to contact Lumby RCMP and quote file number 23-74-74.

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