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January 30, 2019

1,200 pounds of sheet metal goes missing from Charlottetown construction site

The owner of a local construction company is hoping someone can help locate material he said was stolen from a work site over the weekend.

Shane Smith, owner of Friends Renovations, said he and his crew started a job on the corner of Weymouth and Richmond streets in Charlottetown on Jan. 25.

Because the sun was shining that day, lots of people were walking and driving by the site and commenting on the work they were doing. Smith said he didn’t think twice about it, as that happened all the time.

When they returned the next morning, about 1,200 pounds of nine-foot black sheet metal that was to be used to renovate the roof was gone.

Smith said while the material was left at the site overnight, it wasn’t visible from the street.

“It was tucked away in between the two buildings,” he told The Guardian on Jan. 29. “You couldn’t stumble across it, you had to have driven by and seen us working and grabbing off that pile throughout the day in order to know where that was.”

He said he doesn’t suspect it was stolen by anyone looking to get money for drugs, as it would have been an “ambitious” theft to undertake.

“You’d need a truck and you need to know what that’s being used for, what use it has,” he said. “It not worth anything as scrap metal.”

Smith said in the 20 years he’s been doing residential work, he’s never been robbed.

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