Salmon Arm and Sicamous RCMP officers seized and returned several pieces of stolen Christmas decor, all found on the same front yard in Salmon Arm.

According to police, the dots were connected and the stolen items located by an alert citizen doing some social media sleuthing.

Police in Salmon Arm and Sicamous had received reports of two 鈥楪rinch-like鈥� thefts of outdoor Christmas decorations in Sicamous on Dec. 7. The stolen items were a 10-foot tall inflatable Frosty the Snowman and a large Santa in his sleigh.

An area resident reviewing social media posts saw a Sicamous woman reporting that an inflatable unicorn had also been taken from her yard and, in a separate post, a Salmon Arm resident complained an inflatable Grinch display had been taken from her yard in the Auto Road area.

The sharp-eyed resident reported that blow-up decorations matching the descriptions of all four recently-stolen items had appeared on the front lawn of a residence in southeast Salmon Arm.

The suspicious decorations were reported to Sicamous RCMP, who passed it along to the Salmon Arm detachment. Police in Salmon Arm had just received a report that some reindeer decorations had also recently been taken.

鈥淢ounties from both Sicamous and Salmon Arm attended to the Salmon Arm home where they found what they believed to be all of the stolen decorations on display in front of the home,鈥� said Sgt. Murray McNeil, Detachment Commander for the Sicamous RCMP.

鈥淲hen questioned by investigators, the resident advised they had recently purchased the items from an unnamed person and claimed they did not know they were stolen. Officers seized the items and have returned them to their rightful owners.鈥�

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