2 - Friday, November

Squamish
man faces
3 charges

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

A 47-year-old
Squamish man faces
numerous charges fol-
Jowing a robbery at
the Subway
Sandwiches shop in
Central Lonsdale on
Sunday.

A suspect led police on a
car chase over the Second
Narrows Bridge.

Leonard Richard Van
Dyke is charged with rob-
bery, dangerous driving and
carrying a concealed weapon
(a knife).

The North Vancouver
RCMP recommended an
additional charge of causing
police to enter into a pursuit.

That charge was not
approved by the Crown

ice in North Vancouver.

On Sunday, Van Dyke
allegedly jumped over the

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counter of the sandwich shop
in’ the = 1300-block oof
Lonsdale Avenue at about 4
p.m.

He yelled at the clerk to
open the till, according to
the North Van RCMP.

Police say Van Dyke ran
out of the shop with stolen

Three North Vancouver
men gave chase, but they
were unable to catch him,

Van Dyke jumped into a
car parked in the 100-block
of West 14th Street and sped
away.

Police were given a
licence plate number by wit-
nesses.

A North — Vancouver
Mountie and her new recruit
caught up to Van Dyke on
the Second Narrows Bridge.

The rookie cop was dri-
ving the police car.

Police say Van Dyke accel-
erated in the traffic and
zigzagged among the cars to
avoid the pursuing police car.

At one point Van Dyke's
car spun around, narrowly
missing the police far,
according to a North
Vancouver RCMP
spokesman.

Police say speeds of 125

kin-h
chase.
The

were reached in’ the
car chase finally
ended when Van Dyke's car
strack a median near McGill
and Wall streets in
Vancouver,

He ran eff, but was appre-
hended by North Vancouver
Mounties abour four blocks
away, according to police.

hearing on
Monday in North Vancouver
provincial court, Crown
lawyer Trevor Cockfield said
an open knife was found
inside Van Dyke’s jacket. The
knife was nor used or men-
tioned in the alleged rob-
bery.

The hearing was held to
determine if Van Dyke
should be released or kept in
custody pending the out-
come of his charges.

There are two reasons for
a judge to keep an accused
person in custody before the
end of court proceedings.

The judge considers
whether it is likely the
accused will not show up for
court or “flee.” Public safety
is the other issue.

Cockfield said Van Dyke
was sentence to three years in
jail in 1990 for robbery.

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In 1988, he was sen-
tenced to one year in jail for
aggravated assault.

The Crown lawyer asked
that Van Dyke remain in cu
tody on the secondary
grounds of public safery.

Van Dyke’s lawyer Ray
Enright said his client was
employed by Midas Muffler
in Vancouver.

Van Dyke is the guarantor
on the mortgage of his com-
mon-law spouse.

The defence lawyer said
the couple could lose the
home if Van Dyke is not
working.

The defence lawyer said
Van Dyke had “drug habit
difficulties in the past” which
were under control until
recently.

The defence lawyer noted
that Van Dyke had lived in a
halfway house at Marine and
Bewicke after his release
from jail.

Enright said his client
“very recently” started using
heroin again.

Judge Ellen Burdett made
a detention order. She said .
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