Hundreds of suspected stolen items recovered—now RCMP must find their owners

Three people face property, firearms and other charges and have been remanded in custody ahead of scheduled November 16 appearances in Prince Albert Provincial Court. The response also located two vehicles of interest in a reported abduction. The woman involved has been found safe, but that investigation remains open, and the charges announced against the three accused do not include abduction.⁠11⁠91

For people missing belongings, the immediate request is specific: report stolen items that have not already been reported to police, supplying proof of ownership, serial numbers and/or other identifying features. Those details give investigators a way to distinguish one vehicle or tool from another as they catalogue the seized property.⁠11

Investigators have confirmed that some items belong to people both inside and outside the Prince Albert RCMP detachment area. They have also begun linking the recovered possessions to current and ongoing investigations. Police have not announced how many items have been returned or when the identification work will be finished.⁠11

The appeal is not an announcement that everything is ready for collection. It is a request for information that can establish ownership. That distinction matters: a large seizure is a significant result, but it does not establish that every item has been connected to a reported theft, or that every theft behind the recovery has been solved.

Hurst also credited reports from the public with assisting the investigation and encouraged people to continue reporting suspicious and criminal activity. In this case, the public’s role did not end when officers reached the residence; information from owners is now part of the work needed to return the property.⁠11

The sequence set out in the RCMP’s November 13 release began at approximately 2:05 p.m. the previous day, when Prince Albert officers received a report of a stolen vehicle at the Wahpeton residence. They responded and found a black Chrysler 300 and a red Dodge Caravan outside. Both were vehicles of interest in the investigation into the reported abduction on November 11.⁠11

That earlier report came from Highway 788, north of Sturgeon Lake First Nation, at approximately 10:07 a.m. Police initially said a woman had been taken in a red Caravan, last seen travelling toward Little Red River, and identified a black 2005 Chrysler 300 as a second vehicle of interest. Their updated appeal says the woman has been found safe.⁠91

The original abduction account described four males wearing face coverings. It should not be read as an identification of the three people subsequently arrested at the residence. Finding vehicles of interest connects the investigations; it does not establish who committed the reported abduction.⁠91⁠11

At Wahpeton, officers and Police Dog Services contained the area and identified one adult woman and two adult men as suspects. According to the police account, officers arrested the woman outside without incident, while the men fled in the Caravan. Officers pursued with emergency lights activated and deployed a tire-deflation device. After the Caravan stopped, the men ran into a wooded area. A drone and Police Dog Services assisted the search, and both men were found and arrested without incident.⁠11

Officers seized two firearms, one loaded, from a ditch near the Caravan. Further investigation at the residence uncovered the much larger collection of suspected stolen property. The residence inventory included these vehicles, listed separately by police:⁠11

The inventory also lists four firearms, large quantities of tools, welders and generators, and miscellaneous items. The release does not explain whether those four firearms overlap with the two recovered near the Caravan, so the figures cannot safely be added into a combined firearm total. Police supplied neither an exact count of all recovered items nor a total dollar value. “Hundreds of suspected stolen items” remains the supported description.⁠11

The accused are Jerome Bighetty, 20, of Sandy Bay; Dilynn Dumont, 21, of Saskatoon; and Joshua Goodvoice, 26, of Prince Albert. All charges are allegations, not findings of guilt.⁠11

Each faces one count of resisting a peace officer and three counts of possessing property obtained by crime over $5,000. Each also faces one count apiece of possessing a firearm while knowing possession is unauthorized, possessing a restricted firearm, and careless use of a firearm. The $5,000 figure describes the threshold in the property-possession charges, not the value of the entire recovery.⁠11

Bighetty additionally faces two counts of possessing weapons contrary to an order and seven counts of failing to comply with release-order conditions. Dumont faces one additional count of failing to comply with release-order conditions. Goodvoice additionally faces two counts of possessing weapons contrary to an order and one count of flight from a peace officer. All three remain in custody pending their scheduled November 16 court appearances, according to the release.⁠11

The recovery came after a November 9 briefing on rural-crime concerns around Prince Albert. At that briefing, provincial officials, RCMP and the Saskatchewan Marshals Service discussed separate weekend operations that recovered nine reported-stolen vehicles and responded to four break-and-enter reports, paNOW reported. Those results belong to those earlier operations, not to the Wahpeton inventory.⁠2

This recovery does not, on its own, measure a change in the area’s crime rate. Its immediate consequences are more concrete: suspected stolen property has been secured, three accused await court, and some owners have been identified. For the remaining owners, the next meaningful result will be a confirmed match between a seized possession and the person entitled to get it back.