Mounties have arrested two Burnaby residents in relation to a string of property thefts in the city.
Late last year, RCMP was alerted of a series of residential apartment break-ins and thefts from storage lockers across Burnaby. The detachment’s prolific offender suppression team was assigned to the case and together with a crime analyst, embarked on an investigation to identify commonalities between the thefts, according to a media release from the department.
“As a result of intelligence gathered, members from the team identified a well known prolific offender and arrested him … without incident, ending the crime spree in the area,” stated the release.
Officers arrested the suspect on Jan. 7 and executed a search warrant at a home in Burnaby. During the search, police discovered a plethora of stolen property including passports, driver licences, social insurance cards, care cards, department store credit cards, mail and computer equipment, the release added.
Burnaby RCMP will now process the hundreds of items with “the intent of linking the items to the rightful owners,” the release stated.
Burnaby resident Paul Roderick Lindsell, 32, is now facing two counts of break and enter and one count of identity theft. Barbara Ann Lawrence, 47, also of Burnaby, has been charged with one count of identity theft and one count of breach of probation. Both Lindsell and Lawrence have been remanded into custody. Lindsell is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 29 and Lawrence has been scheduled to appear on Feb. 21.
