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Nanaimo homeowners come face-to-face with intruders, RCMP report ‘rash’ of break-ins

Oct 7, 2016 | 12:33 PM

NANAIMO — Mounties say there have been 31 break and enters reported in Nanaimo in the last two weeks.

Police are calling it a rash of incidents and in at least two cases residents have ended up face-to-face with a stranger inside their home.

On Sept. 16 homeowners on Lignite Place woke up to discover someone had come in through a window and stole a laptop, purse and keys. On Sept. 30 an elderly woman heard a noise in her Honey Drive home and went to investigate. She was confronted by a man who yelled at her demanding money. When the woman’s security system turned on the man took off, but not before he went into her fridge and stole some chicken, according to police.

Then on Oct. 2 police say a woman was woken up by a noise in her home on First Avenue. She also ended up staring a stranger in the face. The man was going through her wallet. He then bolted out the back door and rode away on a bike.