A bike stolen in Manitoba resurfaced in B.C. It's more common than you think

When a bike was snatched from Merrill Pauls’s Winnipeg garage in October of 2020, he reported it stolen to police in the hopes that someday it would be retrieved.

He didn’t think it would resurface three provinces over.

Nearly ten months after the bike, which belonged to Pauls’s son, disappeared into the night, he received a call from RCMP saying it had — finally — been found. The only catch? The call was coming from the detachment in Surrey, B.C.

“It’s just interesting to speculate how and why it got that far across the country,” said Pauls.

“Is this some kind of organized pipeline where