am ETT sc ., (HEOE ERS Purse snatched A 20-YEAR-old Burnaby man faces a robbery charge folowing a June 5 purse-snatching incident in West Vancouver. According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, the incident occurred at 1:05 p.m. on June 5 at Marine Drive and 17th Street. A woman was crossing the street when a maa riding a bicycle grabbed her purse. But she hefd onto the suspect’s bike, and he ran off with the purse with several witnesses in pursuit. West Vancouver Fire Department chief training officer Ron Olson was having lunch with West Vancouver assis- tant personnel manager 1 Tom Anderson when he heard a ery for heip. Said Olson, ‘‘All of 3 a sudden we heard this woman screaming, ‘Stop him, stop him, stop that man!’ We looked up and saw this guy on foot heading south on 17th Street.”’ The two gave chase. But Olson said, ‘‘All of a sudden two policemen were right there, and they had their guns Gut and had that guy stopped cold instanthy.”" The suspect was arrested near 17th Street and Bellevue Avenue by two undercover RCMP officers who happen- ed to be in the area. The police recovered a purse containing $200 cash and some credit cards. Rodwey Steven Sawry faces a robbery charge in con- nection with the incident. Carpet caper A MOUNT Currie man faces a break and enter charge after the police found a man in a West Vancouver carpet shop attempting to take four carpets. According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, the police veceived a tip from a caller who heard the sound of breaking glass just after 11:30 p.m. on June 6 in the 5700-block of Marine Drive. The police were dispatched to Best Value Rugs and Furniture Ltd., where they say a man found inside the store refused to come out when asked to do so by the police. Police dog Trooper subsequently apprehended the suspect. The man suffered dog bites to his left Land aad right leg. He was treated for his injuries at St. Paul's Hospital. Harold Irvine Whitehead, 34, faces a charge of break aud enter with intent. Man arrested THE NORTH Vancouver RCMP arrested a 46-year-old North Vancouver man May 26 after he was observed breaking into two stores in Lynn Valley. The incident occurred just after £1:30 p.m. According to a police spokesman, two members of the RCMP-sponsored Block Watch and Business Watch programs reported the incident to the police. The police arrived on the scene and arrested the suspect. Break and enter charges are pending. The weight YES, seafaring readers, the page-one cutline in the June 5 News indeed coniained an error in its listing of specifications for the USS Ranger aircraft cartier. The massive ship, which sailed under the Lions Gate Bridge last week, weighs more than 80,000 tons. The date for our keefhauling had not been set to press time Tuesday. ~ TRANSMISSIONS A NU TRANSMISSION SERVICE For most cars and light trucks. Includes Road test, labour, 4 litres of fluid and gasket. Filter extra if required. CLUTCH SERVICE For most Japanese cars. Includes labour and clutch disc with a 6 month warranty. Pressure plate, bearing and flywheel are extra if required. CENTRES COAST TO COAST That's right! The world’s largest chain of transmission specialists have over 700 centres! We're locally owned and operated but there’s also a large professional company Standing behind your repair. Fish fouls house sale A NORTH Vancouver real estate agent knew there was something fishy about a Mountain Highway area house he is trying to sell. On Sunday he confirmed it: somcone had slipped a stinking salmon behind a bathroom ceiling. Said Meharam Sugrim, ‘When the owner took over we got a smell of something rotted in the place. We called city health. We didn’t know where it was coming from. So eventually yesterday I decided to take some of the ceiling apart. I discovered a big dead salmon on one of the heating ducts.” According to Sugrim, a tenant was given notice to move out last’ week. “At first | thought, well, the guy was a little bit weird. I thought he probably killed a cat and put it somewhere or whatever. The smell was unbearable.’’ The house was cleaned in a bid to clear the air. But the odor persisted. “Everytime I showed the place By Michael Becker News Reporter people would say, ‘We'll have to take this house apart because we don’t know what it is.’ Everybody would hold their nose,’* Sugrim said. The salesman eventually bor- rowed a flashlight and a hammer frora a neighbor and pulled out some panelling. “We did that previously, but apparently the fish was not swollen enough so we couldn't see it. So yesterday I barely had a shiny glimpse of something. So I took it out, and I noticed that it was a salmon,” he said adding, “This is a first.’” 1821 MARINE DRIVE, WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. V7V 1d7 922-4171 FAX: 922-9735 922-3968