One of Chilliwack’s worst ‘super-prolific’ offenders busted with drugs, weapons while being arrested for break-and-enter
Video footage shared on social media helped RCMP identify and arrest well-known offenders Cole Amey and Dennis Rayner
March 2, 2026
Cole Larry Maurice Amey's criminal record is an example of what criminologists such as Irwin Cohen from the University of the Fraser Valley refer to as the 80/20 rule.
We’ve all heard of prolific offenders but Amey is what Cohen would call a ‘super-prolific offender,’ a category for those unique individuals with 30 or more criminal convictions.
The 80/20 rule refers to something social scientists have observed regarding both negative and positive circumstances. In criminology, it refers to how something approximating 20 per cent of offenders commit 80 per cent of crime.
Some say that when it comes to property crime and other areas, it’s closer to 90/10.
“They are their own crime wave,” Cohen explained to me in an interview last year, adding that it’s possible there are as few as a dozen habitual criminal offenders in Chilliwack causing more than 60 per cent of the crime.
The now 40-year-old Amey has an extensive criminal record for theft, weapons and violence in the Fraser Valley with more than 50 convictions as an adult, nearly half for breaching court-ordered conditions.
He had several criminal charges dealt in 2025, and started off 2026 with a bang. While out on bail awaiting trial for a break and enter and mischief $5,000 and under with co-accused Jason Joseph Brooks from August of last year, Amey was apparently living in a house with drugs, weapons and stolen items.
He’s charged with a breach of release from Feb. 4, 2026, and now two more breaches along with a new break and enter from Feb. 19.
Chilliwack RCMP issued a release on Monday (March 2, 2026) about the Feb. 4 break and enter and the arrests made two week later.
Co-accused Dennis Albert Rayner might not quite be a super-prolific offender but he’s close with 40 entries on court services online dating back to 1998.
A homeowner on Ashwell Road shared video surveillance images on social media after the Feb. 4 break and enter where two men entered a home and stole several items. A few days later, someone who recognized one of the men called police with a name.
The Chilliwack RCMP’ Priority Target Team took conduct, reviewed the footage, and identified the possible second man in the video.
On Feb. 18, 49-year-old Rayner was arrested. At the time of the incident on Ashwell, Rayner was subject to a 24-hour curfew as part of a conditional sentence order (CSO) for a domestic violence (K file) incident from June 2, 2025. That involved a finding of guilt for break and enter a dwelling with intent. He also had a first appearance on Jan. 27, 2026, facing a charge of theft $5,000 or under from June 15, 2025, in Chilliwack.
On Feb. 19, the day after Rayner was arrested, officers executed a search warrant at a home on Westview Avenue just around the corner from the Ashwell break and enter. That’s where they found and arrested the 40-year-old Amey. Numerous items were located that police believe are associated to the Ashwell residence. Police also found illicit drugs and weapons inside the home, which were seized.
Both men were charged with break and enter and committing an indictable offence. Amey was charged with two breaches of a release order connected to this August 2025 break-and-enter case. That file is scheduled for a two-day trial June 4 and 5, 2026.
Both men remain in custody, Rayner with a bail hearing scheduled for March 9 in Abbotsford on the Chilliwack B&E as well as in connection with the alleged CSO violation on his K file. Amey’s bail hearing is March 18 in Chilliwack where Crown will almost certainly oppose bail since they are applying to revoke his bail on the August 2025 case.
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