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Teen caught with backpack filled with items stolen from vehicles

Check your vehicles for stolen items, police ask
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Greater Sudbury Police have charged a teen they believe is responsible for breaking into vehicles and stealing items from them. Supplied photo.

Greater Sudbury Police have charged a teen they believe is responsible for breaking into vehicles and stealing items from them.

At around 6 a.m. Monday Nov. 28, police were dispatched to a complaint of a male breaking into unlocked vehicles on Lamothe and Lasalle streets in New Sudbury.

Officers arrested a 17-year-old boy and charged him with theft, possession of stolen property, trespass at night, weapons dangerous and breach of probation.

He had a backpack filled with a large amount of property police believe he took from vehicles he broke into overnight.

Police ask the public to check their vehicles and report any missing items.