NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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MUNICIPALITY OF HURON SHORES - Members from the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police detachment are investigating several thefts of diesel fuel on the Mississagi Bay Road area in the Municipality of Huron Shores.
On July 23, 2018, shortly before 9:00 a.m., police attended a logging area on Mississagi Bay Road (off of Dean Lake Road) where over 200 litres of fuel was stolen from a portable fuel tank situated at the logging landing.
Investigation determined on or about June 24, 2018, a theft of fuel at another logging site along Highway 17, west of Eastman Road near the Town of Blind River, an estimate of 300 litres of fuel was stolen from an excavator that the same logger owns.
On July 26, 2018, another report of theft of fuel was stolen from a portable fuel tank at same Mississagi Bay Road logging site.
The estimated value of the fuel is over $800.
Any person with information regarding the person(s) responsible for these thefts should immediately contact the Ontario Provincial Police at 1-888-310-1122 or their nearest police authority.
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