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Two stolen Toronto cars just popped up in Belmont. What gives?

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You won't believe what they found in Belmont

Good morning from the Forest City — yes, the other London. The one that actually matters to us. Let's get into it.

You know, I've been covering this city for a decade, and just when you think you've heard it all, something pops up that makes you scratch your head. Remember all those stories about things disappearing from driveways in the Westmount area, or those weird late-night noises out in Hyde Park? Well, imagine the surprise when a self-storage locker owner down in Belmont, just a stone's throw south of us, opened up a unit and found not one, but *two* stolen vehicles inside. Two full-size, hot-off-the-lot, gone-missing-from-Toronto vehicles. Just sitting there, tucked away.

### What This Means for Us

Now, Belmont isn't exactly downtown London, but it’s close enough that this definitely has that EOA feel to it, you know? It’s not a Richmond Row problem, but it’s certainly a “huh, really?” moment for anyone who lives around here. It makes you wonder about the journey those vehicles took to end up in a storage unit in a quiet community like Belmont.

* Two stolen vehicles from Toronto found in a Belmont storage locker.

* The owner of the storage facility was the one who made the shocking discovery.

* Police are now involved, investigating the whole situation.

It’s one of those stories that makes you double-check your own garage door, doesn't it? And it just goes to show, you never really know what's lurking behind those unassuming doors, even in our quieter corners of Southwestern Ontario. Keep an eye out, folks.

Brendan Fanshawe-Okafor, MiTL Sports Desk.

You know, Keith and the crew are probably already trying to figure out which storage unit this was. Catch their take live at mornings.live.

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