A woman arrested by Coquitlam RCMP's prolific target team (PTT) was nabbed again a week later, again for alleged metal theft.
In the early morning hours of March 14, members of the PTT caught red-handed a trio of metal thieves - two women and one man - in the United Boulevard area. Officers had been watching one of the women closely after arresting her a week earlier and charging her with mischief for another alleged metal theft. The trio were caught allegedly stealing wire and breaking into a vehicle.
Supt. Claude Wilcott, officer-in-charge of the Coquitlam RCMP, said the woman's back-to-back arrests demonstrated the effectiveness of the detachment's crime-reduction strategy.
"Our general duty members had 'street checked' her on several occasions, which gave our crime analysts and PTT enough information to identify her as a good candidate for being involved in the recent spike in metal thefts in our area," he said in a release. "From there, it was a matter of the PTT targeting her, being patient and waiting for her to do her thing."
Janet Milne, 54, Jason Whitford, 32 and Shannon Barelli, a 22-year-old Surrey resident, are facing charges of mischief over $5,000, possession of break-in instruments and theft.
Whitford was also charged with possession of stolen property while Milne faces a charge of failing to comply with an undertaking.
