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spill into a nearby parking lot. A iarce forklift was employed to shore up vart of the wail.

Drug deais
lead to jail

A North Vancouver
man, armed with a .22-
calibre handgun when
he was arrested for
marijuana trafficking,
was recently sentenced
to six months in jail.

Accerding to the
North Vancouver RCMP
drug section, John
Norman Joseph, 22, sold
various amounts of mari-
juana to undercover offi-
cers in several transactions
thar spanned a three-
month period beginning
in May, 1997.

Most of the drug sell-
ing tok place in the 400-
block of West 3rd. Street
in North Vancouver City.

The last’ marijuana
deal occurred on Aug. 15,
1997 in the 1300-block
of Kilmer in Lynn Valley.
Police say it involved half
a kilogram of marijuana.

Police say Joseph
reached for a knife when
he was arrested. Police
then found the loaded
handgun.

Joseph pleaded guilty
to marijuana trafficking
and carrying a concealed
weapon on Sept. 23.

Judge Jerome Paradis
prohibited Joseph from
possessing firearms for
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He was 75.

Mr. Brown had a successful carcer in newspaper advertising
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Jennifer, sor, David and grandchildren Danielle and Mark.

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to the Cancer Society of Greater Vancouver.

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