Creston RCMP: Thwarted Thefts

Creston Media Report

 

Police received 49 calls for assistance from October 1 to October 8, 2019.

 

October 1, 2019

• Report of a suspicious male sitting under a tree observing a hot tub user. Police attended but found nothing suspicious.

October 2, 2019

• Intervened in a domestic disturbance with loud arguing. No assault reported.
• Report of a suspicious male in a vehicle in Creston. Police located the vehicle and found nothing illegal. 

October 3, 2019

• Attended to a report of a male in distress in Lister. The male was intoxicated, but family was able to take care of him.
• Report of an elderly male yelling and threatening landscape workers with a stick. It appeared that the man did not like the tree pruning that was occurring. 
• Report of on line threats made to a local person.
• Attended to a domestic assault in Kitchener. Charges are pending.

October 4, 2019

• Report of theft of political advertisement signs.
• Report of an identity fraud in which a credit card was taken out in another person’s name and charged. 
• Report of a possible domestic assault in Lister. Investigation continues to establish the circumstances.

October 5, 2019

• Assisted people in obtaining a peace bond against a person that was causing concern.
• Attended to a report of an illegal backyard fire in Creston. Fire and bylaw services advised. 
• A vehicle stop for an unregistered vehicle found that the occupants had been shoplifting from a local business as well as that the occupants were in possession of break in instruments. The male driver was found to be unlicenced as well as being on probation for break and enter and theft with conditions not to be in possession of break in instrument. The female had been observed shoplifting. Both were arrested, and the vehicle impounded. Numerous charges are pending.

October 6, 2019

• A report of suspicious people hiding in a back alley turned out to be the shoplifting couple trying to get back to their home in Nelson. 
• A vehicle stop in Kitchener found that the driver was on a conditional sentence order not to be out of his residence without permission. Information forwarded to probation services for action. 

October 7, 2019

• Attended to a break and enter at a Creston business. Police located the suspect immediately after attendance. Later found out that the suspect had attempted to break into another Creston establishment. Charges are pending. 
• Report of an assault occurring at a school in Creston. Investigation continues to establish what took place.

 

S/Sgt. Ryan Currie 2019-10-08