Power tools such as drills, hammers and saws aren’t just being used in construction these days. They are also being used to commit crimes.
Conversations surrounding power tool assisted crimes and theft have grown more common in Prince George over the past year. Fuel and catalytic converter thefts have popped up in many online forums, conversation, and in-person chit chat.
Multiple members of CFUR’s audience asked them to look into this type of crime.
For some first-hand experience on the receiving end of these crimes, they take the conversation all the way up to UNBC campus where a departmental vehicle was damaged by thieves with power tools.
Dr. Eduardo Martens, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environment at University of Northern British Columbia, had his department’s research interrupted. And Corporal Jennifer Cooper of the local RCMP detachment walks us through the local realities of these power tool assisted acts of theft.
