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Man and women alleged to have stolen items from Abbotsford to Squamish
Surrey pair accused in 55 break-ins by Monique Tamminga
A 19-YEAR-OLD man and 23-yearold woman from Surrey are facing dozens of charges, accused of keeping a hotel room and storage locker filled with stolen goods taken in a possible 55 different break-ins from Abbotsford to Squamish. On April 23, the Integrated Municipal Provincial Auto Crime Team (IMPACT) Enforcement Team observed an unoccupied Ford F350 pickup truck in Surrey and determined it had been stolen in Maple Ridge Insp. Peter Jadis on April 10. The vehicle was associated to a break in at a house in Langley on April 19. On April 23, a male and female drove away in the Ford F350 and were arrested a short distance away. A search of the vehicle and a hotel room in Surrey used by the pair revealed items that had been reported stolen from vehicles and homes during the last four weeks from Squamish to Abbotsford. On April 29, a subsequent search warrant was executed on a storage See POLICE / Page 5
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An RCMP investigator opens a curtain at a house on 111A Street in Surrey on Friday, after the bodies of two women were discovered in the home the evening before.
‘They were really friendly’ Neighbours shocked as mom and daughter, aged 81 and 61, found dead by Kevin Diakiw TWO WOMAN WERE found dead inside a home in Whalley last week
in what is possibly a murder-suicide. Surrey RCMP were called to a house on Thursday (May 1) in the 13600-block of 111A Avenue at about 6:15 p.m. where they discovered the women, who have since been identified as Kathleen Maximuik, 61, and her mother Anne Shouchuk, 81 Police say Maximuik was Shouchuk’s daughter. Danica Baldwin, 15, lives two doors away and knew the pair of women. “They’d come out once in a while when I delivered the paper,” Baldwin said. “They were really friendly. They were really nice
ladies.” Baldwin thought they were on vacation, because she hadn’t seen them in a few weeks. She said a man came to the home on Thursday night and knocked on the door. She believes he was a relative. Police also say it was a relative who found the pair of women and called the police. Area residents describe the neighbourhood as extremely quiet, and a great place to raise a family. Baldwin said it’s frightening to have a killing so close to home. “It’s scary, I live right here,” she said. See RCMP / Page 4
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