A yellow excavator is on the lam – sort of.
New Westminster Police are asking for the public’s help finding out what happened to a 35D John Deere excavator that was stolen sometime between Monday night or Tuesday morning. The excavator is owned by Horizon Landscape Contractors, the company working on the Moody Park playground and spray park.
Horizon’s services manager Ashley Hill said the excavator was parked inside the fenced site and even had a smart key that should have stopped any potential thieves.
The excavator also has a broken bottom right window and a Horizon Landscape Contractors sticker on it. It is valued at $65,000 and would require a flatbed truck or pick-up with a trailer to tow it.
The crew using the excavator left the work site sometime between 3:30 and 4 p.m. on Monday and returned around 5:30 a.m. to find it gone, Hill told the Record.
This is the first theft at the New West site, but the company’s had other heavy duty equipment stolen from other sites, and Hill said the items often end up somewhere in the Interior.
