Man charged in Lower Mainland home invasion<\/p>\n
Published 4:50 pm Thursday, August 20, 2026<\/p>\n
A 29-year-old man was arrested this week in New Brunswick in connection with an alleged break-in and assault at an Aldergrove residence earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Langley RCMP said they responded to a report of an unknown man inside a residence on March 13 around 2:21 a.m. <\/p>\n
Police said the victim confronted the man and was assaulted during a struggle. Investigators were later able to identify and locate a suspect.<\/p>\n
Christian James MacLean was arrested on Wednesday, Aug. 19, in Fredericton, N.B. in connection with the incident. <\/p>\n
The B.C. Prosecution Service approved charges against MacLean, including attempted murder, assault with a weapon, break and enter of a dwelling house, and disguising face with intent to commit an offence.<\/p>\n
Later that same day, investigators from Langley RCMP\u2019s serious crime section arrested MacLean in Fredericton.<\/p>\n
The suspect was brought before the court in Fredericton, where he was remanded into custody awaiting arrangements for his return to B.C.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the matter is before the courts, no further details will be provided at this time,\u201d said Langley RCMP Sgt. Zynal Sharoom, noting that the court has ordered a publication ban on the identity of the victim.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information related to the investigation is asked to contact Langley RCMP at 604-532-3200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man charged in Lower Mainland home invasion Published 4:50 pm Thursday, August 20, 2026 By Saman Dara\/Black Press…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-866039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}