NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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TOWNSHIP OF GUELPH/ERAMOSA - On Jan. 28, 2019, OPP responded to the theft of two motor vehicles from a nursery on Wellington Road 124, in the Hamlet of Eramosa. It was reported that sometime between 10 p.m. Jan. 27 and 7 a.m. Jan. 28, 2019 two pickup trucks, a white Ford F350 and a white Chevrolet Silverado, were stolen. It was also reported that the complainant was tracking one of the vehicles with a Global Positioning System (G.P.S.) device.
The tracked vehicle was found parked in a field near Damascus, Wellington North. Police located and arrested two individuals inside. Police also found a trailer with two snow machines hitched to the truck. The trailer and snow machines were discovered to have been stolen from a self-storage depot on Dixon Court, Fergus earlier in the day. Search of the two individuals revealed a set of keys for the stolen F350 pickup truck, a small quantity of crystal meth and sports equipment that was stolen during a vehicle entry at residence on Highway 7 overnight.
Further investigation led police to the stolen F350 that had been abandoned on Kaine Hill Drive, east of Guelph.
Forty-three-year-old Francisco Carvalho Ferraz and 35-year-old Alexis Dawn Reilly, both of of Guelph, have been charged each with one count of possession of stolen property over $5,000 and two counts of possessing stolen property under $5,000. They have also been charged with possession of methamphetamine and breaching conditions of release.
Both were held for bail.
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