Whitehorse RCMP are looking for leads in the theft of a safe from a downtown business last weekend.

Police were first alerted to a possible crime at about 8 a.m. Sunday, when they received a call from an out-of-town security company saying an intruder alarm had been triggered at Easyhome furnishings on Second Avenue in Whitehorse. The store doesn't open on Sundays.

The officers who attended the scene found the doors locked and couldn't get in touch with anyone who had a key, police reported this morning. They left the scene, assuming it had been a false alarm.

"We get intrusion alarms all the time that are false,” said RCMP spokesman Sgt. Don Rogers.

"We always attend to the call ... but in the case where we are not able to get ahold of the key holder, we can't break into the building.”

But a few hours later, they learned a theft had occurred.

A person walking in the trails behind Falcon Drive in Copper Ridge had come upon a safe, which had been forced open and abandoned.

Bills and other documents indicated it was the safe from Easyhome, Rogers said.

Cash had been taken from the safe box, but police are not saying how much.

There was likely more than one perpetrator, Rogers said, because "it took two big strapping Mounties to put (the safe) back in the vehicle.”

"... They would have had to have been in a vehicle, possibly a quad, I suppose, in order to get it there,” he added.

Police are asking anyone who saw a suspicious vehicle or any suspicious activity in the area last Sunday morning to call the police, or make an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers.