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Extra effort from a Surrey RCMP officer helped locate a little girl’s stolen cochlear implants on Monday.

Dan Matheson, father of five-year-old Annie, said he received a call on Monday afternoon from Sgt. Mike Spencer of the Guildford Fleetwood community response unit.

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Spencer had read the report in Monday’s The Province about the theft of Annie’s cochlear implant’s sound processors. Annie, her mother Caryn and sisters Mae and Lucy, went to the Guildford Recreation Centre on Saturday morning for Annie’s weekly swim lesson.

In an admittedly “foolish move”, Caryn put the family’s gym bags in a locker but did not lock it because it was jammed and she was in a hurry.

Sure enough, when they got back from their swim, the bags were gone, including Caryn’s wallet, car keys, cellphone and Annie’s sound $60,000 sound processors.

Their car was also stolen.

Matheson said Spencer had worked in vehicle theft before and took a special interest in the case. He looked into recent reports and determined the family’s 2014 Mazda 5 had just been located outside a home in Surrey.