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Robhery
suspect
arresied

Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter
dangclo@nsnews.com

A person suspected
of being the gaso-
line robber hit a
roadblock last
Sunday.

The gasoline robber has
terrorized «mainly video and
motel clerks by threatening to
light gasoline fires. His crime
spree began on March 18 at
Rogers Video at 972 Marine
Dr.

On Sunday, police arrested
a man suspected of using a
knife to rob the Seymour
Natural Foods staze at
Parkgate mall. Although the
robber did not use gasoline to
threaten the clerk, the pattern
of the crime was similar to the
way the gasoline robber com-
mitted offences.

The knife-wielding robber
forced a Seymour Natural

See Robbery page 3

Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com

A Lions Bay man affiliated with a
Vancouver non-profit business that pro-
vides sick people with marijuana was in
North Vancouver provincial court on May
14.

Marcus Richardson, 26, is charged with possessing more than
three kilograms of marijuana tor traflicking purposes and possessing
a small amount of hashish.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

On Nov. 25, 1998, Richardson was stopped at 1:30 a.m. in a
West Vancouver Police roadblock on Marine Drive near the Lions

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judge adjourns case to consider
validity of search of car trunk

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Six kilograms (13 Ibs.) of marijuana was seized from the trunk
of the car he was driving.

Court proceedings on May 14 involved a voir dire — a trial
within a uial — in which the legal validity of the trunk search was
at issue. Ifthe search is deemed to have been illegal, the seized mar-
iguana will be excluded from being evidence in the case.

North Vancouver provincial court Judge Jerome Paradis
adjourned the case to June as he considered the voir dire informa-

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tion and judge’s decisions in other drug search cas
Vancouver Police Const. John Lo tes that about 10
after the roadblock was set up, Richardson’s car rounded
the cloverleaf and abruptly stopped short of the roadblock. The
Volkswagen Jetta than pulled up to Lo.
Lo testified he could smell marijuana in the car. Richardson and
the car passengers, Richardson’s wife Charlee and another man,
¢ asked to get out.
Lo found tips of marijuana cigarettes in the car’s ashtray.
“It was quite fuil,” testified Lo, 24.
Lo did not think the marijuana in the ashtray was enough to
account for the smell from the car.
Lo asked Richardson to open the trunk.
“He (Richardson) said ’'m not letting you look in those bags,”

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