A Port Coquitlam mother is publicly pleading for the thieves who stole a laptop containing the only photographs she has of her dead son to return the computer.
It was among several items taken after someone broke into a storage locker at an apartment building in the 1600-block of Grant Avenue in PoCo.
Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Jamie Chung told The Tri-City News that some of the victim's son's belongings were also taken in the robbery. "The computer may not be worth a lot to the thieves but it means the whole world to the distraught mom," he said in a press release. "For her, those pictures have a lifetime of happy memories of her son."
Because the storage locker is not located in the apartment unit, it took the victim several days before she realized she had been robbed, he added.
Investigators believe the theft occurred sometime between Oct. 30 and Nov. 1.
Police hope that whoever took the laptop and belongings will return the items to the mother, Chung said. Anyone with any information about the break-in is asked to call Coquitlam RCMP at 604-945-1550 and quote file number 2013-32676.
