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7500 dollar Rolex stolen

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 08 Sep, 2023 10:37 AM

Burnaby R-C-M-P are asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect who allegedly stole a 75-hundred dollar Rolex watch after setting up meetings on Facebook Marketplace.

Police says the victim met the suspect in a Burnaby mall on September 1st to sell a Rolex but the purchase wasn’t completed on that day.

The pair met again on September 2nd and when the suspect got a chance to try the watch on he fled the area.

Mounties say the suspect was described as a male between 20 and 25 years old and six-feet-tall.

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