A nutty flip of occasions. A person in Ontario has been charged after allegedly stealing 1000’s of {dollars} price of walnuts.
The Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRP) has arrested a person after a trailer carrying walnuts was stolen from the yard of a Cambridge enterprise on Nov. 5, 2023, within the Eagle St. N. and Hespeler Rd. space.
On Dec. 13, 2023, each the trailer and nuts had been recovered by Halton Regional Police Service in Milton earlier than being given again to the corporate.
Just a few weeks later, on Dec. 29, the enterprise was the sufferer of theft once more when round $26,000 price of walnuts had been stolen from its trailer. Police from Hamilton and Waterloo Area then recovered about $11,000 price of the stolen nuts in February of this yr.
As a part of an ongoing investigation into the theft, police charged a 68-year-old man from Kitchener with possession of stolen property over $5,000 on Oct. 17, 2024.
The accused, who was not named within the police launch, is scheduled to seem in courtroom on Nov. 27.
NOT THE ONLY NUTTY INCIDENT ON WRP RADAR
Whereas this may increasingly sound like a novel sequence of occasions, this isn’t the one nut-related theft investigation on WRP’s radar.
Police within the space are additionally investigating after a transport truck and trailer containing pistachios was stolen in Wilmot Township earlier this yr.
At round 9:30 p.m., on Jan. 20, suspects stole a transport truck and a trailer full of the nuts from outdoors of a enterprise within the Foundry St. and Gingerich Rd. space.
Police say that an investigation is ongoing, and the estimated worth of the stolen pistachios is roughly $70,000.
Anybody with data is inspired to contact WRP at 519-570-9777, extension 6399 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.
