School burglary

TWO COMPUTERS and two laser printers were recoy-
after a burglary Monday
Valdort School located in North Vancouver.
Four North Vancouver youths, including mates and
fermales, were questioned about the incident, according to
a North Vancouver RCMP spokesman.
The stolen property, valued at more than $5,000, was
‘returned to the school, according to police.

red on Tuesday

THE BURGLARY unit of the
North Vancouver. RCMP
revealed to the News on
Wednesday that some local
secondary school students are
elling their house keys to
prospective burglars.

at Vancouver

The investigation is continuing.

anal robhery

A. 22-YEAR-OLD West
Vancouver man was arrest-
ed on Wednesday in con-
nection with Tuesday's
robbery at the Canada
Trust, 1645 Marine Dr., in
West Vancouver.
; The suspect made off
with a bag of money con-
taining a red dye pack,
according to: West
Vancouver Police. The dye
sprayed the suspect.

_. The suspect’s name was
‘not released to press time.

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eral weeks before we were up and

running.” said Cheroff, adding his
. small company requires computers
to produce its product.

“HU cost us literally thousands of
‘dollars regardless of insurance.
i Insurance .doesn’t cover. all the
"costs." said Chernoff, adding that his

business has also been a target of
other burglars in recent years.

~ Chernoff said he doesn't have a

problem with Warner being given a

‘ break by the court,

_ But’ said. Chemoff, “If he stole

$65,000 worth of stuff from me, I

think he really ought to pay it back.”
North Vancouver RCMP burglary

i

section Sgt. Jack Ewert said investi- .

gators spent three months trying to
identify the stolen property seized at
_ Wamer's home.. :

“In some. cases, ‘the only way to
identify it was to boot up the com-
puters,” said Ewert.

=, According: to North Vancouver
"RCMP" 1994 statistics 4% of 316

: reported business burglaries resulted
in’ charges in. North Vancouver
District. In’ North Vancouver City,
“7% of 265 commercial burglaries in
*. 1994 were solved. Ewert said a small
: percentage of stolen businéss proper-
ty was retumed to owners.

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SUSPECT IN West Van
robbery arrested. :

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

“It's not only the key, it’s the
floor plan and when it’s safe to be in
there,” said Const. Marc Biage.

Biage and Const. lan Daniels
said that a youth will sell a house
key for $50 or $100, confident that
house insurance will compensate
the family for property losses.

“They (the burglar) is told what
to go. for. They sometimes have
almost a contract (with the key sell-
er),” said Biage.

“You can take this, but not this or
that.” he added.

_ Daniels said the burglary squad
has been aware of the key-selling
scheme for the past six months.
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two North Vancouver secondary
schools.

“It's not that widespread, we are
aware of only a few cases where it
has happened” said Daniels.

He said the burglars involved are
also youths,

The police officers declined to
give the names of the secondary
schools involved or details of bur-
glaries. The investigation is ongoing
and no charges have been laid.

Daniels said key-selling to bur-
glars would fall into a conspiracy
offence category, which is a serious
criminal infraction,

“They weigh out the risk of not
xetting caught and making a few
dollars on the side.” said Daniels.

“When dealing with kids doing
crime, it crosses the whole Spectrum
of the social structure.” said
Daniels.

“We talk to 14, 15, 16 year olds
and they talk like they are about 23
when they are talking about crime.”
he added.

Daniels said the police have trou-
ble apprehending burglars who
monitor police radios and commu-
nicate among themselves on a
sophisticated level.

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