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Mar 30, 2007

Rig thieves * Canada - Hit the road

Recent cargo robberies in Ottawa region have truckers' association worried

Montreal,QUE,CAN -canoe.ca, by JON WILLING -29 Mar 2007: -- Somewhere, maybe in Montreal, $100,000 worth of Kraft shredded cheese that was produced southeast of Ottawa could be making its way into the marketplace and store owners won't even know they're peddling stolen goods... The theft was the first that kicked off a month of truck heists... Mark McDougall, president of SCAET (Stolen Cargo and Equipment Tracking Inc., a private firm that specializes in investigating cargo theft), believes 85% of cargo thefts are random and although about 90% of the trucks are returned, the load is often lost... According to McDougall, property stolen from rigs in Eastern Ontario frequently ends up in Quebec. He said Hwy. 401 is "just like a pipeline" for stolen goods going to Montreal...

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