Here’s a round-up of crime news from across B.C. on Oct. 3, 2024.
Here’s a roundup of crime news from across B.C. on Oct. 3, 2024:
Package containing meth, cellphones seized at Matsqui Institution
Guards at Abbotsford’s Matsqui Institution have stopped a package containing drugs and banned items from entering the prison.
According to officials, a screening on Oct. 1 alerted staff to a package sent to the facility containing crystal meth, tobacco, two cellphones and chargers, four USB keys and a sim card. Officials say the items collectively are valued at $73,000.
The Correctional Service of Canada, which oversees the medium-security prison, uses scanners and drug-detector dogs to search anything that comes and goes from its facilities to stop the smuggling of banned items.
Police are now investigating the seized package.
Man stabbed to death in Vancouver’s Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood
Police are investigating after a man was stabbed to death early Thursday in Vancouver’s Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood.
Officers were called to the area just after midnight early Thursday for the report of a stabbing at a home near Kingsway and Melbourne streets. There, police found Brian Mathew Clayton, 34, suffering from stab wounds. Clayton was taken to hospital but died on the way.
Investigators have since arrested a 27-year-old woman in connection with the death. Police believe the woman and Clayton were known to each other. The woman remains in custody. No charges have been announced at this time.
Anyone with information about the stabbing or the individuals involved is asked to contact VPD’s homicide unit at 604-717-2500.
Coquitlam RCMP seek dashcam footage of serious motorcycle accident
Police are asking Coquitlam drivers with dashcam footage to help piece together what happened in a serious accident Wednesday.
At around 7:30 p.m on Wednesday, Coquitlam RCMP were called to Johnson Street and David Avenue where a black Hyundai and a motorcycle had collided.
The motorcyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries, while the Hyundai driver remained at the scene and co-operated with police.
The area was closed to traffic for a short time as investigators reconstructed the collision.
Police are now asking anyone who witnessed the accident, or who may have dashcam footage of either the motorcycle or the black Hyundai leading up to the collision, to contact police at 604-945-1550 and quote File No. 2024-26149.