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Burnaby
2025-02-12 06:12 PST
File # 2023-8672
A total of forty-eight charges have been approved against four men in relation to a 2023 Prolific Offender Suppression Team (POST) theft and fraud investigation.
In April, 2023, Burnaby RCMP’s POST executed a search warrant at a property in Pitt Meadows. During the search police located two excavators, two industrial printers and various indicators that the location was being used as an organized fraud factory.
See original release: 2023-05-11
On January 8, 2025, the BC Prosecution Service approved 48 charges against four men, Joel Ellingson (50-years-old), Kelly Roberge (54-years-old), Wesley Lawson (33-years-old), and Michael Ridley (37-years-old).
The men are facing, collectively, a total of 19 counts alleging 48 charges, including:
Identity theft and fraud can have serious and long-lasting impacts on victims, said Cpl. Mike Kalanj with the Burnaby RCMP. We believe disrupting and dismantling this operation likely prevented additional people from becoming victims.
Identity theft and fraud can have serious and long-lasting impacts on victims,
We believe disrupting and dismantling this operation likely prevented additional people from becoming victims.
The file is now before the courts.
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