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Cops nab ‘Piggy Bank Burglar’ BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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fter months of stealing children’s hard-earned savings. the notorious “Piggy Bank Burglar” has allegedly been arrested by police. In recent months, a rash of break-and-enters around Sardis Park led residents to nickname the
Thief earns dubious nickname after targeting children’s money during break-and-enter spree
thief who was ripping off their kids’ money. But police say local children can sleep easier at night after neighbours helped catch a man allegedly trying to break into a Silver Avenue home on Thursday.
Police say they were called about a break-and-enter in progress Thursday morning and, after neighbours described the suspect, a man was spotted running through backyards. While police
set up a perimeter, local residents updated officers on the man’s location and the Mounties Crime Reduction Unit swooped in to make the arrest. Soon after, a second break-and-
enter was detected on nearby Britton Avenue. Two children’s piggy banks were stolen. Police allege that the suspect’s footprints found at the Britton Avenue home matched those found at the Silver Avenue break-in, and at other residences that have been subject to breakand-enters over recent months. See PIGGY BANK, Page 6
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J.R. Mesa and his four-year-old son Josh share a special moment watching trains go round at the Mount Cheam Lions Club of Chilliwack’s 13th Annual Model Railway and Hobby Show held at Heritage Park over the weekend.
oun. Diane Janzen says she is optimistic that a health contact centre for homeless, addicted and mentally ill men and women will finally be built, despite worries that a $3 million grant from the province and B.C. Housing may disappear. Last week mayor Sharon Gaetz told theTimes that she hoped a recent report on the high number of break-and-enters that afflicts Chilliwack would put a long talked about facility for those in need of help back on the province’s radar. “We’re working together with the province, trying to get funding, and maybe this will be an impetus, a little bit of a push, for them to see that these issues don’t only happen in the big cities,” Gaetz told the Times. “They happen in small communities as well and Chilliwack may be one of those communities that really, really does need help in that area.” But according to Chilliwack MLA John Les, the province, through Crown corporation B.C. Housing, promised the city $3 million in August to use towards buying and renovating a property to provide housing and “wrap-around” services. Les said that it was assumed that an offer would be immediately made on the Traders Inn property on Yale Road. But according to Janzen, See CENTRE, Page 17
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