A 17-year-old boy has been charged in connection with a series of break-ins going back nearly a year.
The break-ins took place at five businesses and one home between May 24, 2007 and Feb. 18 of this year.
The teen is alleged to have stolen nearly $30,000 worth of goods, including electronic equipment, jewellery and transit passes.
In December, police said, transit passes worth close to $10,000 were nabbed from a drug store on Portage Avenue.
A short time later, "a male attempted to sell a pass to an off-duty transit employee who confiscated the passes and notified police," the police service said in a press release this morning. The suspect fled.
The youth has been charged with break and enter, theft over $5,000, theft under $5,000 and failure to comply with a sentence or disposition. He was taken to the Manitoba Youth Centre.
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