Poppy Box taken from southeast store
Posted Nov 8, 2014 9:31 am.
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Police continue to investigate a string of poppy box thefts in Calgary.
At least eight cases have now been reported after yet another incident Friday evening.
Detective Travis Ibach said around 8:40 p.m. a man went into a Subway store in Valleyfeild in the southeast.
“It looks like the clerk was attending to somebody else or something else and when she turned around the poppy box was gone and the male was exiting the store,” Ibach said.
He said they’re hoping to have a full suspect description from CCTV footage.
Ibach’s advice for businesses collecting the poppy donations is to put the boxes in a location close to the clerk, chain the boxes down, or keep donations in a safe.
At this time police have not said whether the number of poppy box thefts is higher than usual.
