Two Edmonton residents have been charged after RCMP recovered stolen tools in Banff.
On July 25, members of the Southern Alberta District Crime Reduction Unit (SAD CRU), with assistance from Banff RCMP, arrested two people in a vehicle containing power tools stolen earlier in the week from a job site in Ardrossan, Alta.
RCMP said they had received information that the tools were entering southern Alberta and quickly responded, identifying the occupied vehicle.
“Further investigation determined that the accused were planning to sell the stolen equipment outside the Province,” police said in a statement.
The equipment has since been returned to its rightful owner.
Kenneth Ruth, 46, and Lindsay Slaby, 41, both of Edmonton, are charged with possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000.
"Prompt action by SAD CRU led to the recovery of this stolen property before it was taken out of the province to be pawned or resold to an unsuspecting buyer elsewhere," RCMP stated in a news release Wednesday.
Both were released from custody and are scheduled to appear in the Alberta Court of Justice in Canmore on Sept. 24.
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