Grey County OPP has laid charges related to break and enters at area LCBO and Beer Stores that occurred on March 18 in Meaford and Thornbury.

Police report that at 3 a.m.  they responded to an intrusion alarm at The Beer Store on Sykes Street (Highway 26) in Meaford just before 3 am. The first units arrived on scene within two minutes of the dispatch time and found a piece of concrete had been used to smash the front window. Video surveillance confirmed the culprits entered and removed two cases of beer through the hole in the window.

Minutes earlier, officers from Blue Mountains OPP had responded to

another intrusion alarm at the LCBO Store in Thornbury and a found a

smashed window and a brick lying inside the store. There was no

indication of anything being removed from that store when a follow-up

inventory was done.

A male 17 year-old Blue Mountains youth, in custody on unrelated

charges, is charged with the Criminal Code offences of Break, Enter and Theft, Break and Enter with Intent and Possession of Stolen Property. Two other males, a 19 and 17 year-old, from Barrie have also been charged and warrants for their arrest have been obtained. They face the same charges as the youth in custody with added charges related to breaches of probation and violating conditions contained in a recognizance.