'Bizarre' string of plant thefts has Canadian gardeners beefing up security - National
Thieves have dug up plants and flowers from front lawns of houses in Canada and also gone after trees, shrubs, soil and vegetables grown in community gardens.
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Thieves have dug up plants and flowers from front lawns of houses in Canada and also gone after trees, shrubs, soil and vegetables grown in community gardens.
Thieves have dug up plants and flowers from front lawns of houses in Canada and also gone after trees, shrubs, soil and vegetables grown in community gardens.
Flowers from a memorial at Innisdale Secondary School in Barrie were stolen last Saturday, according to Barrie police.
“I was confident it was going to come to a favorable conclusion, without any guilt, because I didn’t do anything illegal,” he said.
Peter Leon, 72, was charged in 2017 for allegedly exploiting a 66-year-old woman he met volunteering as a pastor for a nursing home. But prosecutors said earlier this month that all the charges would be dropped.