13-year-old arrested after Queen Street break-in

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE

*************************** A 13-year-old youth will appear in court on August 10 after City Police arrested the youth yesterday after responding to a break and enter call.

City Police attended at an address in the 500 block of Queen Street West and took a report of a break and enter from a homeowner who had returned home at noon to discover his house had been entered.

Thieves made off with a VCR, a Winchester 30.30 rifle serial number 4260365, a small amount of jewellery and cash.

Police received information at the scene that lead to the arrest of the 13-year-old.

The youth was on a release document at the time with conditions to abide by the house rules and information had also been received that the youth had not been abiding by the rules.

The youth has been charged with one count of break and enter and one count of breach of the release document. The property has not been recovered yet, and investigators from the Investigation Services Section are further investigating this call.

If you have any information on the break and enter, or know the whereabouts of the stolen property, call City Police at 949-6300 or Crime Stoppers at 942-7867.

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