Chris Lowrey
PONTIAC May 4, 2018
Several people in Shawville, Campbell’s Bay and Ladysmith woke up on May 4 to discover they were robbed in the overnight hours.
Rhonda Meisner was one of the victims. She had a cell phone taken as well as several pieces of jewelry – including two rings that belonged to her late grandmother.
Highlighting the brazenness of the theft, both Meisner’s jewelry box and her phone were in her room while she slept.
Meisner also said that her son had a $20 bill as well as his debit and credit cards stolen from his pants, which were in his bedroom while he slept.
“I guess I’m a good sleeper,” Meisner said.
She said the perpetrator had broken into her house by coming in through the kitchen window.
Meisner said her house has been for sale for a few years. With a house on the market comes open houses and Meisner wonders if the thief had already stepped foot in her house under less suspicious circumstances.
“You think you’ve probably been cased a little bit,” she said.
Although Meisner said the police were extremely helpful, when she asked about the odds she would get her stolen goods back, the news wasn’t good.
“He told me not to hold my breath,” she said.
Other residents in town had debit and credit cards stolen.
There were also reports, as well as a video surveillance photo, of a man who was in Bretzlaff’s Store in Ladysmith buying lottery tickets one at a time in order to use the tap feature of the debit card he was using.
Police issued a press release that said two people had been arrested in relation to a series of break and enter and fraud in several municipalities.
A 23-year-old man was arrested in Gatineau on May 4. He was scheduled to appear in court on May 7 and was being held in custody because, at the time of his arrest, he had several warrants out for his arrest.
He could also face charges of break and enter and fraud.
MRC des Collines police arrested a 35-year-old woman on May 6. She was released on a promise to appear at the Gatineau courthouse on August 7 and could face charges of conspiracy to commit a break and enter as well as conspiracy to commit fraud.
