44 criminal charges have been laid in a stolen vehicle investigation in Windsor.
Last Monday (July 7), members of the Target Base Unit spotted a pick-up with fraudulent Ontario licence plates that matched the description of a truck that was reported stolen in Essex in June.
Officers were led to a home on Cadillac Street where the pickup was found along with two additional stolen vehicles and a trailer that police say had been fraudulently rented using stolen identification.
A search of the recovered vehicles uncovered a number of ID cards, cheques, insurance papers and other documents that had been stolen from multiple people.
A 31-year old man was found inside one of the stolen vehicles and was arrested.
He's charged with 13 counts of obtaining identity information for fraudulent purposes, 7 counts of possession of property obtained by crime, and other offences.