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The Kaslo RCMP is investigating a rash of break-ins they call heartless to people and properties affected by last year’s massive landslide at Johnson’s Landing. Thieves risked their own lives and entered the slide area to gain access to several homes within the evacuated zone to steal tools and other items. “These poor people have been displaced, with Mother Nature victimizing them, and then these thieves have gone back to an unoccupied residence to further victimize these people — it is not very fair,� says Cpl. Shaun Begg of Kaslo. “For people to be that desperate or wanting goods that badly that they’re going to risk potentially Story continues to ‘Ultimate’ on Page 9