New West police located a knife after a maintenance worker at a Brow of the Hill apartment said he’d been threatened by a man with a knife who was breaking into a storage locker.
According to police, a maintenance worker at a building in the 900 block of St. Andrews Street called police about 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2 after noticing damage to a storage room door and seeing a suspicious person inside the storage room.
“As police arrived on scene, they observed a man matching the suspect description running out of the front entrance to the condominium. The suspect was arrested for break and enter without incident,” said a press release from the New Westminster Police Department. “A maintenance worker who was working in the building advised police that the suspect threatened him with a knife as he was running out of the building. Officers located a knife in nearby bushes.”
New Westminster police have recommended break and enter and assault with a weapon charges against the suspect.
The incident has prompted a suggestion from the New Westminster Police Department.
“To address break-ins, managers of multi-family buildings are encouraged to reach out to our crime prevention coordinator for a security audit, as there are environmental design choices that can decrease the likelihood of criminal behaviour,” NWPD spokesperson Sgt. Sanjay Kumar said in a news release. “In addition, residents are encouraged to call police when they see criminal behaviour inside their buildings.”
The New Westminster Police Department encourages anyone with information on property crimes to call police at 604-525-5411. People should call 911 to report crimes in progress.
