Image: Mission RCMP / Alleged suspect.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Caught on camera

Mission RCMP seek help ID’ing suspect who stole a donation box from a monastery, wallet from seniors home

Sep 18, 2025 | 8:27 AM

DEROCHE — Mounties in Mission are appealing to the public for assistance in identifying a suspect who stole both a donation box from a monastery in Deroche and a wallet from a senior’s home in Mission days later.

According to a statement from Mission RCMP spokesperson Corporal Harrison Mohr, Mission RCMP were contacted after donation box containing cash was stolen from the Little Flower Monastery in Deroche, east of Mission, on Tuesday afternoon, September 2, 2025. A male and female arrived in a grey 4-door Pontiac Sunfire before both entered the building. After milling around the lobby area for about fifteen minutes, a male then placed the box into a white plastic garbage bag, and walked out.

Image: Mission RCMP / Alleged suspects.

The male is described as a Caucasian man in his fifties, wearing a “True North” baseball cap, glasses, and Under Armour flip flops. The female appeared to be Caucasian as well, wearing a long black dress, black sandals, and had dark hair tied up in a bun. This was the second time in a month that the donation box was stolen, although it is not yet clear if the same persons were also responsible for the first theft.

Image: Mission RCMP / Alleged suspect

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A few days later on Friday, September 5, the same man approached an 83-year-old woman outside a seniors housing complex on Hurd Street in Mission, and told her that he was an employee and needed to do some work in her suite. She let him inside, then when he left a short time later, she noticed that her wallet was gone. The woman with the male suspect at the monastery was not seen during this theft.

Anyone who recognizes either of the persons in the attached photos, or who has other information about these thefts, should call Mission RCMP at 604-826-7161, file 2025-10979.