OVERNIGHT on Friday or Saturday morning the donation box at the Whakatane SPCA was stolen after the property was entered.
Whakatane police Senior Sergeant Mark van der Kley said that on Friday, in a separate incident, a house in Patterson Place was entered and electrical items were stolen, along with food from the freezer.
Also last week, two properties in Salonika Street and Olympic Drive were entered, however, nothing appeared to have been stolen.
Car thefts
CASH totalling $350 was stolen from a car in Landing Road on Saturday, August 20.
Senior Sergeant Mark van der Kley said that in a separate incident a day earlier, another car was broken into and a torch stolen.
On Thursday, a car in Domain Road was entered and a sports bag stolen.