Crown Counsel has approved charges against three men arrested on Tuesday for a series of break-ins.

At around 5:30 p.m. on October 30, VPD officers located three men in a parking lot at Granville Street and Southwest Marine Drive who were allegedly involved in a break-in to a home less than an hour before on West 37th Avenue near Granville Street. The three men were arrested.

The following charges have been approved by Crown Counsel:

  • Forty-year-old Graham Scott Beattie of Surrey – two counts of breaking into a dwelling house and one charge of attempted theft of an auto over $5,000
  • Forty-two-year-old Harold Jason Gillis of Richmond – two counts of breaking into a dwelling house
  • Thirty-four-year-old Joseph Leon Kidd of Vancouver – one count of breaking into a dwelling house.

All three men are in custody. The investigation is ongoing.