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A prolific mail thief responsible for a string of burglaries in North Vancouver earlier this year has been handed a lengthy prison sentence.

Cody Justin Parent, 26, of Surrey was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted in B.C. Supreme Court last month of seven charges, including break-and-enter, possession of instruments to forge credit cards and identity theft.

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Parent, a man with a long history of identity theft, was arrested in June after a series of mail thefts at apartment buildings on the North Shore. North Vancouver RCMP were able to identify Parent as a suspect after reviewing video-surveillance footage.

During a search of his Surrey home, police seized a variety of stolen and illegal items, including identification, blank cheques, credit cards, keys, drivers’ licences, passports, computers, banking documents, USB drives, key fobs and an embossing machine used to create fake credit cards.

Police said Parent had even bought a BMW with a stolen credit card. The car was also seized.