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Vancouver police arrest man at gas station and uncover ?gasoline scheme?

After a man was arrested with a large amount of gasoline and phoney credit cards at a Vancouver gas station Tuesday afternoon, police are recommending charges for his alleged involvement in what they called a “gasoline scheme.”

Tuesday afternoon around 3 p.m., police responded to a suspicious call at Petro Canada at 41st Avenue and Oak Street after receiving reports that a van was being “filled with a disproportionate amount of gasoline.”

“When police arrived the driver of the van was taken into custody and determined to be in possession of a number of what was believed to be fraudulently obtained credit cards,” said VPD spokesman Sgt. Randy Fincham in an email.

Witnesses on the scene Tuesday afternoon reported seeing a white panel van with large white gas tanks in the back.

The arrest comes two weeks after another white van burst into flames and explosions, only blocks away on Oak Street. That van became engulfed in large flames after crashing into a concrete wall near 54th Avenue and Oak Street on Oct. 7.