NEWS RELEASE
YORK REGIONAL POLICE
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Investigators with the #4 District Criminal Investigations Bureau are seeking witnesses after two school buses were stolen from a parking lot and recovered in nearby ponds in the City of Vaughan.
On Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 shortly before 7 a.m., York Regional Police were called to Marita Payne Park, which is located in the area of Dufferin Street and Clark Avenue West, for a report that a school bus was in a pond. When officers arrived they found a school bus that was still running and was partially submerged in a pond. They also found a second school bus in a nearby creek.
The investigation has revealed that the school buses had been parked overnight in a lot at the Promenade Mall. The suspects forced entry into the buses and took them for a joyride. One of the buses had been driven through a nearby baseball diamond causing damage to a fenced backstop.
Investigators are appealing to anyone who witnessed this incident, anyone with residential video surveillance that may have captured the buses driving and anyone who may have been in the area at the time with a dashcam, to please come forward.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the York Regional Police #4 District Criminal Investigations Bureau at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 7441, or call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS, or leave an anonymous tip online.
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