BROOKS, Alta. – The Alberta Gendarmerie is looking for a transport truck operating under a fake advertising call that picked up $230,000 worth of beef and then disappeared.
The RCMP stated that suspicions arose on August 30 when a truck that had been subcontracted to send a full load of beef from the JBS meat packing plant in Brooks, east of Calgary, USA. America, he couldn’t deliver.
Officials say we later decided that the truck was operating on fraudulent documents and under the fake call from Transport Pascal Charland of Chateauguay, Quebec.
Earlier this month, central Alberta’s RCMP reported that seven spas were stolen from an Arctic Spa production in Thorsby, southwest of Edmonton.
The gendarme stated that the truck carrying the spas had been known as Transport Pascal Charland of Chateauguay.
Corporal Robert Harms says police are investigating that the two crimes are related.
“There are similarities, ” he said on Monday.
Police said the truck that took the meat was described as burgundy with a giant bunk, pulling a closed, chilled white trailer.
The driving force is described as a tall, white man with short, bald, burly brown hair.
The truck in the hot tub robbery, meanwhile, is a white Volvo with a bunk bed pulling a flat bridge.
Police said the driving force described them as Caucasian, 30- to 40-year-olds, who measure five feet and six inches, with short brown hair and a poorly shaved face.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on September 14, 2020.
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