$60K worth of lumber stolen from truck as price of wood soars in Canada
As the cost of wood increases, there have been reports of a recent surge in lumber theft. Calgary Police say that they have always dealt with theft from construction sites; however, they started to notice an uptick in lumber theft around the end of last year’s construction season. Low theft levels were seen throughout the winter, but there has been another recent increase as the weather has gotten warmer, including some incidents in which lumber has been stolen from trailers on transport trucks. Sergeant Nick Wilsher of the Calgary Police Service Crime Prevention Team told Daily Hive that l...
Source: dailyhive.com