Canadian police arrest man accused of selling stolen fixtures and fittings.
It’s not been a good week for Canadian demolition. Not content with “going viral” with the wobbly building video from Vancouver, the industry is now associated with a fraud.
A man posing as a demolition worker in what police say is an elaborate attempt to hock house fixtures and decorative flagstone from homes under construction has been arrested.
Investigators received a complaint in September about a fraudster posing as an employee of a demolition company.
The man was offering buyers the chance to purchase items at unoccupied Forest Hill homes under construction, though he has no connection to the property, investigators say. He is currently facing charges related to one case in which $69,000 worth of flagstone was stolen from one site.
“He meets legitimate people that are interested in buying and they don’t know that this guy doesn’t have the right to sell it,” said Detective Constable Craig McFarquhar, days prior to the man’s arrest.
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