Two men are facing charges after an alleged daytime break-in at a home on the 1800 block of 21st Street in West Vancouver.
The homeowner, who was away at the time, alerted police when her alarm system was tripped and sent surveillance images of the suspects to her smartphone just before 2 p.m. Monday.
The suspects sped off in a waiting van. Officers cordoned off the area and found the vehicle abandoned a few blocks away. Investigators called in their K9 unit, which took about 30 minutes to sniff out the suspects in a wooded ravine alongside a creek in the 2800 block of Mathers Avenue.
Forty-six-year-old Jose Molano Lopez of Scarborough, Ont., and 33-year-old Sergio Eder Oritz Gonzales of no fixed address are both charged with breaking and entering. They’re due in court on Nov. 2.
– Brent Richter
