PENETANGUISHENE – Police say a local resident reported a series of unauthorized transactions on credit cards after a wallet was stolen Saturday from a vehicle parked in an attached garage.
Southern Georgian Bay OPP say the incident was reported on April 6 shortly after the noon hour when a resident reported the theft and a series of unauthorized charges.
Police say the wallet was stolen from a parked vehicle in a garage on Murray Road.
Police said they have learned the identity of the suspect and have started the judicial process to bring this person before the courts.
Police added that locking your vehicle does work and officers stressed that you need to remove valuables such as wallets, purses and other valuable items and lock your vehicle to help prevent these "crimes of opportunity" from occurring.
"It is seems to be a regular occurrence for officers to receive a report of a vehicle entry or a series of entries only to learn the vehicles were left unlocked or locked with valuables left out in plain sight causing a forced entry and theft," the OPP said in a news release.
"These types of thefts can lead to the loss of credit cards and other pieces of personal identification which can be used in fraud related occurrences."
For more information on the OPP's Lock It or Lose It Program, go to this link.
