Man, 45, facing charges as Cape Breton police investigate vehicle thefts

Tom Ayers · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 17, 2025 4:33 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

A Cape Breton antheral is facing multiple charges related to firearms and stolen vehicles arsenic portion of an ongoing constabulary probe that involves a agrarian salvage gait and a erstwhile simple school.

Cape Breton Regional Police are remaining tight-lipped astir the investigation. For the past respective days, constabulary and backstage information person been guarding Bill Young's Auto-Body Salvage successful Little Pond, N.S., and the erstwhile simple schoolhouse successful adjacent Florence.

It's not wide however the sites, which are astir 5 kilometres isolated successful a agrarian portion of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, are connected.

In a little quality release, constabulary said portion executing hunt warrants successful Little Pond, Florence and North Sydney, they arrested a 45-year-old Little Pond man.

He is charged with 20 counts of improperly having and storing firearms and ammunition, including a .22-calibre rifle, a .50-calibre firearm and a loaded 9-mm handgun.

He's besides charged with 5 counts of stolen spot involving 2 newer pickup trucks, an SUV and 2 side-by-side ATVs.

Police said the probe continues successful collaboration with car theft investigators from Montreal-based Équité Association, a nationalist security fraud organization.

"Additonal charges are anticipated and details astir the totality of the probe volition beryllium released erstwhile they are available," constabulary said.

"To support the integrity of the investigation, nary further accusation tin beryllium shared astatine this time."

Court documents bash not supply galore details, but the vehicles allegedly beryllium to an security company, 2 leasing agencies, a sports dealership successful New Brunswick and a backstage individual, besides successful New Brunswick.

The documents besides amusement the antheral spent respective days successful jailhouse earlier getting bail, aft putting up $160,000 successful currency and sureties.

While connected bail, helium has to unrecorded successful Florence and is prohibited from going adjacent his location successful Little Pond, different adjacent spot and the salvage yard.

He besides cannot spell adjacent an autobody store successful Florence oregon the community's erstwhile school.

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