Olds RCMP are urging rural residents to retrieve their mail promptly after four thefts from rural mailboxes were reported last week.
"Over the past week we've had a few rural mailbox thefts here again ñ break-ins. I think we had four in total. Locks been cut and then mail stolen. So people are reminded to remove their mail daily," Cpl. Michael Black said.
Vehicles at Olds College were targeted too.
Between midnight Dec. 2 and 9 a.m. on Dec. 3, someone smashed the windows of several vehicles and rummaged through them throughout the college.
"We're looking for any information on that," Black said.
RCMP have some details on one such case. Someone broke into a truck on the college grounds. They stole a Playstation 3 and some games.
But there was a positive aspect to this call.
"When the member attended, they found a second truck there that had been reported stolen, so we recovered a stolen truck in relation to that call as well," Black said.
When interviewed he was not sure where that vehicle had been stolen from.
Police are investigating break-ins to at least a couple of businesses along Imperial Way.
They were reported on Dec. 4 and are believed to have occurred during the night of Dec. 3.
In one case, the door handles of some company vehicles were broken off.
"We're still waiting for a list of things that were stolen," Black said.
Also on Dec. 4, RCMP received a report that a licence plate had been stolen from a vehicle at Destination Place in the southwest part of town.
The Albertan has received reports of thefts from vehicles in Bowden but Black said the numbers are not unusual.
"People are reminded to remove their mail daily." CPL. MICHAEL BLACKOLDS RCMP
