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Police have arrested a 16-year-old male in connection with the rash of home burglaries that plagued Flin Flon in recent months. The youth, who cannot be named because of his age, was apprehended January 7 in Pelican Narrows. He had been a resident of both that community and Flin Flon. Police have connected the teen to six residential break-ins in Flin Flon dating back to September. The break-ins encompassed a broad area of the community, with homes on Green Street, Parkway Boulevard, Tweedsmuir Street, Third Avenue, Creekside Drive and South Hudson Street being targeted. The teen has so far been charged with five counts of possession of stolen property and two counts of break, enter and theft, but police expect to lay additional charges once results from forensic testing of the crime scenes are available. See 'Worked' P.# Con't from P.# The youth was remanded into custody to The Pas Correctional Institute and is slated to appear in Flin Flon Provincial Court on January 19. Evidence suggests that the youth worked alone in the burglaries. Police had not looked at the youth as a suspect until January 6, when they received a report that he had left behind some items in Flin Flon that appeared to be stolen, including CDs, change and fishing tackle. Indeed the property was stolen, leading police to issue an arrest warrant for the youth, who by then was back in Pelican Narrows. Pelican Narrows RCMP arrested the suspect before Flin Flon RCMP transported him to Flin Flon. Cpl. Leslie Beck of the Flin Flon RCMP said her officers deserve a pat on the back for their work in this case. "I would like to commend our officers on their efforts towards solving this case," she said. "It's the extra effort they put in, as well as working with the public, that leads to cases like this being solved." Cpl. Beck said four people have now been arrested in connection with burglaries since the spring of 2003 and attributes that to the work of her officers. The investigation into this latest burglary case continues.
