Burnaby RCMP has dismantled a suspected “fraud farm” in Pitt Meadows and recovered $300,000 in stolen and fraudulently obtained items, including two excavators and two industrial printers.
The printers, valued at $97,000, are capable of printing driver’s licences, bank drafts, credit cards and other identification documents, police said. Along with the excavators and printers, police located numerous other printers, hard drives, network storage, laser engravers, a VIN plate stamping machine and modifying tools, hundreds of fraudulent identification cards and blank identification cards, blank bank draft paper, a handgun and ammunition.