This past weekend, one of the Drumheller Valley’s treasured tourist attractions was broken into.
On August 18, 2024 at 9:25 a.m., Drumheller RCMP responded to a complaint of a Break and Enter to the East Coulee Museum located on 2nd Avenue in East Coulee, AB.
Investigators attended and determined that sometime over the previous evening, a suspect or suspects forcibly entered the museum from the east side and stole small items including jewellery. The facility sustained some damages from the suspect(s).
A Property Crime Examiner processed the scene and RCMP continue to investigate this occurrence.
Cindy Clark, Manager of the East Coulee School Museum believes that the perpetrators were about vandalism more than stealing artifacts of the museum. “I think some teenagers broke in a window. We had an air conditioning unit that they were able to push in and the got inside the building. It looked like they had a bit of party in some of the rooms.”
Clark believes they did not steal any of the artifacts on display but as the RCMP stated, some jewellery was taken from the gift shop.
Both Clark and the RCMP are asking residents if they saw anything unusual on Saturday night, Sunday morning, to let the RCMP know to hopefully determine who the perpetrator or perpetrators were.
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