A 32-year-old 91原创 man remains behind bars following a violent home invasion on Thursday, June 27. The victimized woman will soon be without a home.
Around 1 p.m., 91原创 RCMP responded to a 911 call from a 56-year-old woman who had been attacked, tied up and put in a room by several men who broke into her home in the 24900 block of 72 Avenue.
Officers arrived to find two vehicles were parked in the driveway with the doors open, said Cpl. Holly Marks. Officers found the sliding door to the residence had been broken open.
One of the responding officers saw a man wearing a black hoodie and a bandana covering his face. Upon seeing the officer, he ran back into the house.
With her hands still tied, the victim then came out of her home, telling police three or four men were inside, two with their faces covered. Some had weapons.
She told police that when they entered her house, one of them hit her and tied her hands behind her back. She was placed in a room alone and could hear the men scrambling through the house, said Marks.
91原创 RCMP quickly called in the Emergency Response Team to help. By then, the suspects had fled the house, said police. Air One took to the skies and officers spotted a man running down the train tracks near the property. ERT arrested him a short time later.
Police seized the two vehicles found in the driveway.
The victim had lived in the house for nine years, many of those by herself after her husband became ill and had to be moved to a care facility.
She rented the barn and garage on the property to tenants cultivating a fairly large legal medicinal marijuana grow operation, said police.
鈥淪adly, she will lose the property to a foreclosure and the mortgage company has now evicted the tenants,鈥� said Marks.
The medicinal grow-op had been removed on June 22 and 23, prior to this attack.
Police believe the suspects were looking for the grow operation or cash revenue from it.
Derek Allenby, 32, has been charged with forcible confinement, break and enter, assault and several breach charges.
He has been remanded in custody and will next appear in Surrey Provincial Court on July 5.
Allenby is a career criminal who has committed dozens of crimes over the past decade. As recent as May 6, he was arrested in 91原创, charged with break and enter, theft over $5,000 and possession of property obtained through crime.
He was released that day on $200 bail.
