A Drugs Hat lady is going through costs after police recovered 1000’s of items of stolen mail within the southern Alberta metropolis.
The Drugs Hat Police Service (MHPS) say they started investigating after getting 16 studies of mail being stolen from neighborhood mailboxes between February and April of this yr.
On Apr. 10, officers responded to a report of a theft in progress at a mailbox and located a feminine suspect leaving the scene.
The lady was arrested and police allegedly discovered break-in instruments and a whole lot of things of mail in her possession.
Investigators subsequently executed a search warrant at a neighborhood dwelling and storage lockers the place they are saying they recovered 1000’s of items of stolen mail.
Drugs Hat resident Cassandra Chenoweth, 41, is going through a number of costs. She is scheduled to seem in a provincial; court docket subsequent month.
“The investigation is ongoing as MHPS investigators at the moment are working intently with Canada Publish Inspectors and its is predicted additional costs can be laid,” reads a launch from police.
Police say the recovered mail objects can be returned to the meant recipients as soon as they’re now not required for the investigation.
