Langford construction site the target of 2 separate theft attempts in 1 day, RCMP say

The two suspects in the first theft are seen in this surveillance image provided by West Shore RCMP.

Mounties on Vancouver Island say they received two separate reports of theft from the same construction site in the span of four hours Wednesday.

The site in question is located at 2165 Bellamy Rd. in Langford, West Shore RCMP said in a news release Thursday.

The first theft occurred around 10:40 a.m. Wednesday. In surveillance video, a black Ford F150 pickup truck can be seen pulling into the site, according to police, who did not share the video, but shared stills from it.

Two men exited the truck and began loading equipment from the site into the truck bed, police said.

The second incident occurred around 2:40 p.m., approximately four hours after the first.

“Police believe a second theft from the same site was interrupted by witnesses who reported a white truck driving out of the site at a high rate of speed after the suspect realized they were being watched,” Mounties said in the release.

The suspect vehicle in the first theft was an “early 2000s” model two-door F150 with “a black folding Tonneau cover, a Harley Davidson sticker on the left side of the tailgate and writing on the box of the truck,” police said.

The driver of that vehicle was a man “with light skin colour” and “dark facial hair,” according to police, He was wearing a dark baseball cap, a white T-shirt, dark pants and black boots.

His passenger, the second suspect, also had a light complexion, police said. He was wearing a white tank top, tan-coloured shorts, white shoes and a “white visor cap.”

Police described the suspect vehicle in the second incident as a white, two-door, older-model pickup truck – possibly a Chevrolet – with “a black cargo liner and at least two tires in the cargo box” and dried mud on the sides of the vehicle.

The driver of that vehicle was another man “with light skin colour,” according to police. They did not include any other information about his appearance in the release.

Anyone who knows the suspects involved in either incident or the whereabouts of their trucks should call West Shore RCMP at 250-474-2264, police said. Tips can also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers.