WANTED – quick change artists

Posted Oct 14, 2010 04:52:17 PM.

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Police are looking for two men who pulled off a “quick change artist” scheme at a department store on
Strasburg Road in Kitchener Tuesday night.

You can find images of the suspects on our website.

The store reports being defrauded of several hundred dollars.

Police say the suspects had selected an inexpensive item and proceeded to a clerk where one suspect carried out the offence while the other acted as a look-out.

A suspect in this recent incident is linked by video surveillance to similar offences in and around Waterloo Region from February 2010.

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