Two women had quite the fright last Thursday evening when a man entered their ground floor apartment and began touching himself.
At about 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 7, an unknown man entered an apartment in the 6100-block of Willingdon Avenue through an unlocked sliding door. Once inside, the man allegedly put his hand down his pants and began touching himself, according to a Burnaby RCMP media release.
Two women were home at the time, but he didn’t approach or harm them, and he left shortly after he entered, the release added.
Burnaby Mounties are now asking for the public’s help in identifying the man. He is described as Caucasian, about six feet tall with short black hair and a black goatee. At the time of the incident he was wearing a black sweatshirt with a fur-lined hood and grey sweatpants.
“Police have increased patrols in the area and are working diligently to identify this male,” said Cpl. Lea-Anne Dunlop. “The public is asked to be vigilant and report any suspicious activity to police right away.”
This is not the first time an incident like this has happened in Burnaby. On Nov. 1 and 2, the RCMP received three separate reports of a man lurking outside ground floor apartments in the Kingsway and Metrotown areas.
In these cases, police aren’t sure what the man was doing on the patios, but in one incident the man did knock on the sliding door – the resident didn’t answer and subsequently called police.
“We are looking at that because that was, obviously, an incident where individuals were on balconies in a similar area, so it is something that we’re going to look at, but we can’t say at this time that they’re related,” Dunlop told the NOW.
The man involved in the Nov. 1 and 2 incidents is described as Caucasian, between 5'10" and 6 feet tall with a medium to muscular build. He was caught on a surveillance camera wearing a distinctive hoodie with the word deuce written across the front and back of the sweater in large letters.
At this time Burnaby RCMP isn't sure whether the two cases are related and is asking the public to report any suspicious activity of this kind right away.
"The big thing for us is really going to be to get (people) reporting this type of suspicious activity right away in the hopes that we can be there and we can identify this individual," Dunlop added.
Anyone with information on the identity of either men or incidents is asked to call the Burnaby RCMP at 604-294-7922 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
