Chilliwack RCMP remain on scene at Princess Ave. home where the ERT made an arrest in October 2023

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Original story below from Wednesday, Dec. 27:

CHILLIWACK — At least two Chilliwack RCMP officers remain on scene Wednesday morning at a home on Princess Avenue just east of Ruth and Naomi’s, the same home where ERT personnel made an arrest in October 2023.

According to a tip from a Chilliwack resident who lives on Princess Avenue, police and forensics personnel have been reportedly stationed at a home in the 46100 block of Princess Avenue for at least a day now. A vehicle was reportedly towed from this same house in the last 48 hours.

Fraser Valley Today has contacted the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment in Chilliwack for comment on the presence of police at this home Wednesday morning.

Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / Pattison Media / Police on scene Wednesday morning (Dec. 27) outside a home on Princess Avenue near downtown Chilliwack.

The Chilliwack resident who lives on Princess Avenue said police set up shop in the alley just north of the residence and established yellow tape around the home on Christmas Day, Monday, Dec. 25, at approximately 12:36 a.m. A tow truck removed a vehicle from the premises at 5:30 a.m. on Christmas Day.

The Princess Avenue resident said she has lived at her home for six years and has seen the neighbourhood deteriorate.

“Walking on the sidewalks and crossing the roads, you get shards of glass embedded in your soles from all the crack/meth pipes that get broke,” the resident said in an email to Fraser Valley Today. “The streets ‘glitter’ when it’s sunny and it is disgusting. This means one could be tracking these shards into their homes where they can cause injury to animals, babies, etc. The open drug use children are being forced to witness as they walk through the city and to have it blown in their faces is disgraceful. I wonder what would happen if our children were drug tested? Don’t drugs make people unpredictable so how does this make the rest of us safe? What does the mayor say about all this? Yes, the government made it easy by decriminalizing ‘X’ amount a person can carry/use, but it did not say they could smoke or shoot up wherever they please. How is it allowable that it has spilled out into the carwash stalls, and trickled down to the empty private lots, doors down from them or into the main streets of this city? Why is this the new normal? Open use in doorways of buildings on main roads is not something many want police and government to allow.

We non-drug users don’t accept this as our new normal.”

Back on Friday, October 20, police surrounded a home in the 46100 block of Princess Avenue, resulting in what appeared to be the arrest or detention of a man by members of the Emergency Response Team.

Over a dozen police officers and multiple police vehicles flooded the area around Princess Avenue and Williams Street as authorities executed a search warrant at a home.

Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / Pattison Media / ERT personnel detained a man at this home on Friday, October 20, 2023.

According to a Chilliwack resident who lives in the area of Princess and Williams, the police incident on Friday, October 20 unfolded just after 7 a.m. Police utilized flash bangs and a loudspeaker to communicate with a subject they were attempting to locate. At least two, possibly more ERT vehicles were located on the north side of the home in question as well as other police vehicles on Margaret Avenue, Princess Avenue and Williams Street. Police blocked off the immediate area surrounding the home. Police had a police service dog during the search warrant execution and/or police incident.

One ERT member in camouflage gear stood watch on a large vacant parcel of land on the south side of Margaret Avenue while two, possibly three police officers monitored the proceedings from Margaret Avenue.

At approximately 8:02 a.m., police wound up detaining a suspect who appeared to be shorter, with facial hair and a red hoodie sweater and khaki pants. Police patted him down repeatedly on virtually every part of his body, including his neck, back, shoulders, waist area, pants, legs and elsewhere. Police walked him over to an unmarked, black police SUV that was parked on the west side of Williams Street, just east of where the incident on Princess Avenue occurred.

Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / Pattison Media / Police detained a man following an ERT incident in the 46100 block of Princess Avenue on Friday, October 20.

by Mike Vanden Bosch

Chilliwack RCMP remain on scene at Princess Ave. home where the ERT made an arrest in October 2023

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