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March 10, 1989 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribuaon 986-1337 80 pages 25¢

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BEAU AND BUFFY, two Litasa Apsos, were spotted cut for a walk recently in the chilly West Vancouver air. It was chilly enough that the eight- :
month-old brothers had to den doggie duds. ;

Former W. Van teacher

jailed for sex offences

§ DRUG-RELATED CHARGES

N. Van man busted
twice for cocaine

A FORMER West Vancouver teacher was sentenced
Wednesday in Vancouver county court to three years in
jail after being found guilty on nine sexual-assault related
charges involving adolescent males.

A 29-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man, ordered March 3
in North Vancouver provincial court to stand trial in Van-
couver county court on a charge of possession of cocaine
for the purpose of trafficking, was arrested two days later

cocaine for the purpose of traf-
ficking in connection with a March
S incident in Richmond in which
approximately one pound of co-
caine, with an estimated street

i Daniel Leroy Bristow, 64, was
| initially found guilty Nov. 22 on
seven counts of indecent assault
and (wo counts of gross indecen-
cy involving six males in connec-
tion with incidents that occurred
; between January 1968 and June
| 1979.
The 64-year-old Bristow was
the director of the music and
drama program at Sentinel Sec-
ondary School from 1966 to
1978.
He was originally charged with

aine counts of indecent assault
and three counts of gross in-
decency, but was acquitted on
one count of gross indecency and
two counts of indecent assault
with 2 seventh male.

Complainants testified during
a five-day trial that Bristow had
fondled them, and engaged them
is masturbation and oral sex in
his bedroom in North Vancouver
and on camping trips.

Bristow was sentenced to three
years in jail on all nine counts.

and charged with four additional drug-related counts.

Michael Anthony Johnston was
originally charged jointly with
Debra frene Gummow, 28, of Red
Deer, Alberta, with possession of
cocaine for the purpose of traf-
ficking in connection with an April
25, 1988 seizure of an estimated
$300,000 worth of cocaine at
Westview Drive and the Unper
Levels Highway.

Appearing before Judge J.D.
Layton following a pieliminary
hearing into the charge, Johnston
was ordered to stand tnal on the

charge in a higher court and
elected to be tried by a judge and
jury.

Gummow has also elected to be
tried by a judge and jury.

Johnston was released on
$100,000 bail, but on Sunday he
was arrested and charged with two
additional counts of trafficking in
cocaine in connection with Feb, 2
incidents in which drug deals were
alleged to have been made in
North Vancouver and Burnaby:
and further charged with traffichk-
ing in cocaine and possession of

value of $140,000, was alleged to
have been sold to an undercover
police officer.

The investigation was a joint ef-
fort of North Vanrouver and Bur-
naby RCMP drug squads.

Johnston is currently being held
in custody and will appear March
15 in North Vancouver provincial
court to show cause why he should
be released on bail prior to his
trial.

He is scheduled to appear April
$ in Vancouver county court to set
a date for trial on the original
charge of possession of cocaine for
the purpose of trafficking.