Three arrested after Shoal Lake break-ins
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Mounties arrested three suspects following an investigation into a string of Westman break and enters.
In late May, the RCMP’s West District Crime Reduction Enforcement Support Team (CREST) started investigating a series of break and enters on rural properties, during which several firearms were stolen.
The break and enters were primarily near Shoal Lake, in the Yellowhead region.
After Mounties started identifying suspects, police searched a home on the 200 block of McKenzie Street in Shoal Lake on June 10 and found several firearms, ammunition and methamphetamine, RCMP said in a news release Tuesday.
Police also found cash, illegal cigarettes, illegal marijuana and other paraphernalia, the release said.
Officers arrested two men and one woman who were inside the home.
Mounties said the two men have also been “tied to” a break and enter at a residential property on May 24 in the Rural Municipality of Yellowhead.
When RCMP members responded to that incident and tried to pull over a truck, it sped away, and members did not chase it for public safety reasons, the release said.
The truck matched the description of a truck that was later seen parked in front of the home on McKenzie Street where the three suspects were arrested, police said.
Kodi Boynton, 36, and Rahel Wuenthrich, 44, both from Shoal Lake, along with Benjamin Bone, 41, of Keeseekowenin Ojibway First Nation were charged with several offences, including drug possession for the purpose of trafficking, possession of a firearm while unauthorized and unsafe storage of a firearm.
Boynton and Bone are also charged with breaking and entering and flight from a peace officer. The two were remanded into custody, and Wuethrich was released on an undertaking.
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