More mailboxes ransacked

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Several Canada Post mailboxes were broken into Friday night, including one at Coyote Crossing Villas.

Yet another community mailbox has been broken into in the Okanagan, this time near the north end of Westside Road.

The break-in happened Friday night at Coyote Crossing Villas at 12560 Westside Road.

A resident of the manufactured home park says their park manager told them about the break-in Saturday morning.

He says police told him that other mailboxes had also been broken into and looted.

“They were all wide open,” the resident said.

The resident says it's the first time he's had his mailbox broken into, but the Okanagan has seen a rash of break-ins over the past few months.

Julian Hoekstra, 43, and Kristina Anderson, 38, were arrested in December in Peachland in a stolen RV and charged with several recent Canada Post mailbox break-ins in West Kelowna, Peachland, and Summerland.

“Given the nature of break-ins with mailboxes and mail theft, I think it's really important to let people know to be a little more vigilant,” the resident of Coyote Crossing said.