Police seize $150K in stolen items

RCMP found about $150,000 in items stolen from western Manitoba as long ago as 2021 after searching a property just outside of Brandon.

Police were told on Nov. 3 that construction equipment was stolen from an area off Provincial Road 270 and the Trans-Canada Highway, north of Brandon, between the evening of Oct. 31 and the morning of Nov. 1. The equipment included a skid steer and a cargo trailer.

Mounties found the stolen skid steer on a residential property near PR 270 and Road 87 West and arrested two people. Officers, including a canine unit, later searched the entire property and found a stolen snowmobile, a utility trailer, a boat and boat trailer, a dirt bike, a golf cart and construction signs.

Two Municipality of North-Cypress-Langford residents — a 45-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman — have been charged with 11 counts each of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000. They were remanded into custody.

“Officers are working to return property back to their original owners,” RCMP said in a news release Thursday that includes photos of some of the items.