Prolific Surrey mail thief handed three-year sentence
Credit to Author: Scott Brown| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:44:37 +0000
A prolific mail thief responsible for a spree of burglaries in North Vancouver earlier this year has been handed a lengthy prison sentence.
Cody Justin Parent, 26, of Surrey was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted in B.C. Supreme Court last month of seven charges, including break-and-enter, possession of instruments to forge credit cards and identity theft.
Parent, a man with a long history of identity theft, was arrested in June in connection with a series of mail thefts at apartment buildings on the North Shore. North Vancouver RCMP were able to identify Parent as a suspect after reviewing video-surveillance footage.
During a search of his Surrey home, the RCMP seized a variety of stolen and illegal items, including identification, blank cheques, credit cards, keys, drivers’ licences, passports, computers, banking documents, USB drives, key fobs and an embossing machine used to create fake credit cards.
Police said that Parent had even bought a BMW with a stolen credit card. The car was also seized.