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Homeowner spots theft in progress, confronts prowler in backyard

Homeowner confronts thief

Rob Gibson

“It’s not the first time, won’t be the last.”

Owen Wright lives on Stockwell Avenue in Kelowna.

He's sharing security video taken Thursday at 6:18 a.m., which shows a man walking into Wright’s backyard and beginning to search around. After a few minutes, Wright can be seen walking out to confront the prowler.

Wright says they built a fence to protect their property and they’ve added a security camera and other safety measures, but that doesn’t seem to stop prowlers from entering and taking whatever they can get their hands on.

“The last time was a pretty big score. They took all our power tools and overhead LED lights and a power shelter. That time they actually jumped over the fence,” says Wright.

Since then Wright has been religiously checking his security cameras every morning.

“I noticed that there were two notifications that went off and I saw there was a guy out there.” Wright says he didn’t stop to think about it he immediately went to confront the would-be thief.

“I mean, he's taking my s**t, we have to stand up for it. And I stood there for maybe a solid 15 minutes giving him a good piece of my mind.”

Wright says he went so far as to ask to see what was in his bag and the would-be thief made apologies and eventually left without further incident. The incident has been reported to RCMP.

Wright says he works hard to make the money to buy his tools and he’s beyond frustrated that he can’t seem to stop prowlers from entering his property. “I stopped this guy in the act but I can't lay a finger on him without getting myself in trouble. Police are limited to what they can do so it doesn't help. We don't know what to do anymore."

“Obviously the cop say 'lock your stuff up,' but we can't really lock the car shelter and they just jump the fence,”

Wright says he hopes there isn’t a next time, but knows there probably will be.



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