Maria Canton
Northern News Services
Norman Wells (Feb 12/01) - Empty liquor bottles and cigarette butts are all that are left from a break and enter at Norman Wells' Yamouri Inn.
"Many dozens of bottles of alcohol, cases of beer and cartons of cigarettes were taken and we recovered nothing," said Cpl. Mark Crowther of the Fort Good Hope detachment, the community where the stolen goods were found.
"We found the empty bottles and there is evidence that a big party went on -- we guess that what wasn't consumed was bootlegged."
Three males, two youths from Fort Good Hope and a 22-year-old Yellowknife man and former employee of the Yamouri Inn, have been arrested, charged and remanded in custody.
The break-in happened on Feb. 3 and Crowther said the goods were driven 100 km to Fort Good Hope on the recently opened ice road.
"They made off with a good haul (of goods) and our belief is that when the goods came back to Good Hope there were many fingers in the pie."
Within two-and-half days police, acting on tips from the public, were able to locate the stolen merchandise and arrest and charge the three with break, enter and theft.
The Yellowknife man is also wanted by the Calgary city police service and the Nova Scotia RCMP.
Future court appearances will be in Yellowknife.
