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Ransacked home just the beginning Burnaby mom, son, lose belongings to thieves and then face attempts to steal her identity and savings
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Jenn Lee and her nine-yearold son came home Tuesday night to find their townhouse had been broken into. Among the items stolen were two laptops, which thieves managed to hack into before attempting to drain Lee’s bank account and order credit cards in her name.
Cayley Dobie staff reporter
It was an average weeknight for Jenn Lee and her nine-year-old son. The pair was getting home late one night, like they often do after a full day of work and after-school activities. Lee opened her front door, dropped her keys on a table, grabbed the trash and took it out to the bin. When she got back inside, she noticed her son’s video games and console were pulled out from under the TV. She scolded her son for making a mess and went about her business, still slightly perturbed about the video games. When she entered the kitchen and slowed down for a minute, she noticed the back window of her townhouse was open, and her son’s guitars were leaning below it. She slowly looked around and noticed that several things were strewn about. Immediately, she knew something was wrong and ran upstairs, where she found bits and pieces of her jewelry tossed around her bedroom, and an empty hope chest was tossed on the bed. That’s when she knew someone had broken into her home and stolen her valuables
Larry Wright/ burnaby now
– including two laptop computers. “It had my whole life on it,” Lee said, choking back tears. “Years of work, everything, is on my computer.” The loss of the laptops hit Lee hard, but
she worries it has hit her son the hardest because he lost all of his music, which he wrote and recorded himself. “It’s not just stuff, it’s my child’s life,” she said. “I’m just so sad for my son.”
But the single mother’s troubles weren’t over yet. After calling the Burnaby RCMP and spending the night going over what Break-in Page 8
Measles outbreak arrives in Burnaby Stefania Seccia staff reporter
The measles outbreak from Chilliwack has hit Burnaby at the BCIT campus, the Fraser Health Authority has confirmed. An infected student was at the local BCIT campus on March 6 and 7, which
is related to the original outbreak in Chilliwack. Fraser Health is dealing with 80 to 100 cases of measles in the Fraser East sector, such as Agassiz, Hope and Chilliwack. “The risk to the general BCIT student population is low, as most of the population are in the age group that would have
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