More Pride flags stolen in Southwestern Ontario
The latest theft happened on Monday in a residential laneway near Norwich
Provincial police in Oxford County are seeking assistance from the public in hopes of identifying a suspect who tore down a Pride flag in Burgessville, just north of Norwich, Ont.
Police have released video of the incident from a security camera overlooking a residential laneway that captured the footage on Monday.
A hooded individual can be seen running into the laneway and pulling down the flag and an attached flagpole. He then runs off with them.
It's the latest incident involving a stolen Pride flag.
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OxfordOPP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OxfordOPP</a> looking to identify this person of interest in relation to mischief and theft of a Pride flag in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Norwich?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Norwich</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/OxfordCounty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OxfordCounty</a> If you have any information please contact <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OPP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OPP</a> 1-888-310-1122 or <a href="https://twitter.com/CrimeStoppersOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CrimeStoppersOC</a> 1-800-222-8477^pc <a href="https://t.co/T3vEasXta7">pic.twitter.com/T3vEasXta7</a>
—@OPP_WREarlier this week, CBC News reported that a Pride flag had been ripped from a front porch-railing in southeast London on June 19.
And Provincial police are investigating the theft of a Pride flag and Pride signs earlier week from two separate addresses in Dunnville, southeast of Cayuga.
Anyone with information about the incidents is asked to call police.