Update: RCMP locate vehicle related to Sicamous home invasion robbery

Oct 25, 2018 | 4:10 PM

SICAMOUS, B.C. — Sicamous RCMP have located the stolen vehicle related to a violent home invasion that left a terminally-ill Sicamous woman assaulted and injured.

In a release, RCMP say they have located the 2003 white Ford pick-up truck associated to Wednesday’s home invasion robbery, however the suspects are still at large.

Cpl. Dan Moskaluk says in a news release that officers responded to a report of a home invasion on Kappel Street in Sicamous at roughly 6:24 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24. At the scene, members were advised that two men with handguns had forced their way into the home while a female suspect stayed outside.

The 59-year-old woman in the home was bound and assaulted before the suspects fled the scene in a white Ford dually pickup truck. They made off with two small safes, jewelry and prescription drugs.

The woman is terminally ill with cancer, and Moskaluk says she suffered a fractured nose, telling investigators that she was held at gunpoint and kicked in the face during the alleged assault. She was taken to hospital, while Vernon’s RCMP Police Dog Service and the Southeast District’s Air Services helped in trying to locate the suspects, who are still on the run.

Police do not believe this was a random attack.

Moskaluk says a vehicle matching the description used during the home invasion was reported stolen out of Armstrong sometime overnight on Oct. 24. 

If you have information on the home invasion, call Sicamous RCMP at (250) 836-2878.