By Robyn Rexin
There have been a couple of problems in Vavenby lately that required the police be called.
One happened at Val Luger’s home on the night of Nov. 11. A neighbor saw the motion detector, security light, and garage lights on around 12:30 a.m. He also heard two voices arguing and two vehicles.
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Luger’s car was driven out of the garage and down the driveway. The jack was taken out of the trunk and the car jacked up. A hole was drilled into the bottom of the gas tank using the portable drill, bits, and charger that had been found in the garage. The perpetrators emptied the full gas tank. The car was ransacked.
Luger’s partner heard the skidding of a vehicle. He looked out the window and saw a pickup backing up their driveway. He thought that the driver was drunk and at one point thought the truck was going to end up in the river. Then the truck stopped and took off over the bridge.
Luger found her car at the bottom of her driveway later in the morning and the RCMP were called.
Besides the tank of gas she lost her keys and remote. A pile of items stolen from the trunk were found in a resident’s yard and returned. Wells Gray Auto towed the car away.
Luger said, “It’s a shame that the area we felt was so safe isn’t any more.”
The second incident happened to a new arrival to Vavenby, Kerry Klingbeil. She is also a new employee at Vavenby general store and was working there on Sunday, Nov. 12.
Klingbeil left her car in the store’s parking lot after work as she would be unable to drive it up the Adams Lake Road to her house due to snow.
Sometime that night or the next morning someone broke the sliding passenger window. About $5 in change, prescription glasses, and four or five children’s DVDs were taken.
Klingbeil discovered the condition of her car the next day around 9:30 a.m. She phoned the RCMP.
They felt it was a drive-through because there had been a similar incident in Avola as well.