KELOWNA — Truck thefts happen frequently in Kelowna and don’t often make the news. But in this case, it was no ordinary truck.
Someone stole a five-ton, $85,000 truck belonging to a roofing company and the theft was caught on camera.
The theft happened last Sunday, early in the morning, in the industrial area off Sexsmith Road.
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Surveillance video shows a man walking alone in a parking lot. A short time later, a black pick-up truck pulls up and a male is seen getting out of the vehicle. Minutes later, the five-ton truck is seen driving away.
The owners say it’s just one of a series of thefts in the area in recent days.
“We’ve been in contact with the RCMP and in the last few days there’s actually been quite a number of thefts around here,” says truck owner, Darran Light of Laing Roofing. “There was an F-350 taken from this area yesterday [Tuesday] and there was a dump truck taken two weeks ago from Kelowna Lite Kast. I talked to them and they’ve since recovered it. It was recovered yesterday in the Lumby area.”
Light says a witness reported seeing the stolen roofing truck driving across the Bennett bridge shortly after it was stolen.