A heavy-duty vehicle stolen from a Perimeter Highway business in 2010 has been recovered by RCMP, though unfortunately there's little left of it in decent condition.
One night in December of 2010, a break-in occurred at Leo's Sales and Service Ltd. at the corner of the north Perimeter Highway and Sturgeon Road. The perpetrators hopped the fence and made off with a 2009 CASE IH STX 485 Quadtrac, worth approximately $275,000 at the time. They drove the vehicle right through the fence at the business and off the property, loading the vehicle onto a trailer.
Ryan Grandmont, who works in sales at the business, explains they were able to steal the vehicle because farm equipment like the quadtrac, unlike other motor vehicles, all use the same type of key.
"All the keys in farm machinery, they all fit the same," he says.
"You could get a CASE key out of your garden tractor and it would work in a four wheel drive. That's just the way it's been."
