Chilliwack RCMP executes search warrant in Fairfield Island, recovers stolen items listed on Facebook Marketplace and a gun

CHILLIWACK — Facebook Marketplace has emerged as a favourite online option for selling unwanted, used items locally.

However, for a couple of crooks in Chilliwack this past week, they got their just reward for stealing items that didn’t belong to them.

Chilliwack Mounties executed a search warrant in the 10000 block of Fairbanks Crescent in Fairfield Island, located a few blocks east of Gwynne Vaughan Park, on Thursday, October 28 and recovered stolen items listed for sale on Marketplace.

Corporal Martin Godard, media relations officer for the Chilliwack RCMP detachment, said Tuesday (Nov. 1) that the investigation began when a resident alerted police that property stolen from his residence a month prior had surfaced on an online sales forum. Once an investigation confirmed ownership and location of the goods, RCMP executed a search warrant and recovered further stolen goods, controlled substances, and a loaded firearm.