Homicide investigators were sent to Hope on Sunday after a man was found dead there two days before.
On Friday evening, Hope RCMP received a report of a dead person in the 900-block of Old Hope Princeton Way. After attending the scene, police determined the death could be the result of a homicide.
The victim has since been identified as a 46-year-old Chilliwack man, but police aren’t releasing his name until family members are notified.
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The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has taken over the investigation and will work with other police agencies.
“We are in the beginning stages of our investigation,” Sgt. Timothy Pierotti of IHIT said in a news release. “We’re asking anyone with information to please come forward.”
If you have any info, please contact the IHIT information line at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email to ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.
A crime spree in Langley on Friday that started with a carjacking ended with an RCMP officer using his patrol car to ram a stolen five-tonne truck off the road.
The series of events began at around 1:10 p.m. when a woman reported that a man had assaulted her as she was stepping out of her vehicle in the 20200-block of 64th Avenue. The man then stole her car, driving erratically and crashing into two other cars a short distance away at 200th Street and 64th Avenue.
The man then tried to carjack other vehicles in the area but was unsuccessful, fleeing the area on foot. A few minutes later, police received a call about a five-tonne truck that had been stolen from the area of 196th Street and Willowbrook Drive.
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Several more 911 calls were made regarding the truck being driven dangerously. Soon after, the truck ran into several parked cars in the 7200-block of 200th Street. It was then that a Langley RCMP officer used his patrol car to ram into the truck’s front wheel, making it undrivable.
The suspect, a 33-year-old Surrey man named Edward Joseph Biwer, was arrested at the scene.
Biwer has been charged with one count of robbery, two counts of theft of a motor vehicle, one count of mischief, one count or assault and a handful of driving offences.
“The co-ordinated response by front-line officers together with the numerous 911 calls from the public regarding this incident allowed police to apprehend the accused in a timely manner,” says Cpl. Zynal Sharoom of the Langley RCMP.
Police are asking anyone with video footage of the incident to contact the Langley RCMP at 604-532-3200 and quote File No. 2024-21188.
A traffic stop in Langley in late June led to a large seizure of cash and contraband cigarettes.
At around 2:30 p.m. on June 25, while watching a suspicious vehicle in the 5400-block of 204th Street, Langley RCMP’s Special Response Team pulled it over after an apparent traffic infraction. After stopping the car, officers searched it and found nearly $20,000, 12 cartons of unstamped cigarettes and a small amount of drugs.
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