appeared in North
Vancouver courts

recently to face various

charges:

Man
with gun
arresied

News Reporter
dangelo@nsnews.com

A Bowen Island man
allegedly took a
loaded handgun with
19 bullets onto the
local ferry and then
onto a West
Vancouver blue bus
on March 25.

Matthew James Stride,
28, was charged with pos-
sessing a restricted handgun
without a registration certifi-
cate and possessing a stolen
9 mm handgun.

Stride has made one
appearance in North
Vancouver provincial court
in connection with the
charges. He is slated for
another court appearance on
April 15 while fe endeavors
to find a lawyer.

Stride allegedly stole the
gun from his Bowen Island
landlord on March 10.

According to Bowen
Island RCMP Cpl. Paul
McLean, an island resident
reported that two guns and
other items were stolen from
his home while the resident
was out of the province for a
few days.

The resident’s missing
‘guns included a .22 gauge

target rifle and a 9 mm
handgun.

Cpl. McLean. said: that

15 days later, on March 25,

a citizen reported that a man

believed to have a stolen gun

-was on the Bowen Island

ferry. The man boarded a
bus at the ferry terminal.

West Vancouver Police
officers subsequently
stopped an express blue bus
on the Trans-Canada
Highway and 15th Steet.

West Vancouver Police
Sgt. Jim Almas said Stride
came off the bus and was
arrested without incident.
Police say a loaded handgun
was seized.

ironically, the gun's
owner, Kenneth Seed, said
that he decided to help
Suide turn his life around
about 18 months ago alter
Suide had a run-in with the
law.

Seed rented a trailer to
Stride for more than a year.

Seed said that Stride had
-a problem with glue and sol-
vent snifting.

*. “The end result is that he
turned ‘on our family, We
‘can't believe it... He needs

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help. It’s. really sad,” said
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THE following people

Anna Marie D'Angelo

Before Judge Jerome
Paradis in North Vancouver
provincial court on Feb. 1):

Allan) Nordhoj, 40, of
North Vancouver, was fined
$200 and received nine
months’ probation after he
pleaded guilty ta filing to
complete alcohol abuse coun-
selling and anger manage-
ment.

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Thomas Sanders
Greenwell, 71, of North
Vancouver, received nine
months’ probation after he
pleaded not guilty of assault
causing bodily harm of a
woman, but instead pleaded
guilty to the lesser or included
oifence of assault.

The original — charge
stemmed form a Dec. 23,
1997 incident in) North
Vancouver City.

Before Judge Bill
Rodgers in North
Vancouver provincial court
on Feb. 4:

Rodger Lee Isaksson, 30,
of no fixed address, was jailed
seven days after he pleaded
guilty to breaching a court
promise by failing to go to
court on July 23, 1997 in
North Vancouver City,

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