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W. Vancouver
home invaded

TWO armed. men trau-
matized a woman and
her 14-year-old daugh-
ter on Sunday during a
West Vancouver home
invasion.

Police say the robbers were
armed with a knite and hand-
gun,

They stole cash and jewel-
ry from the home in the 300-
block of Keith Road.

The robbers took off in
the woman’s Jeep Grand
Cherokee. The jeep was later
found abandoned near the
SPCA building in Ambleside

Park, according to West
Vancouver Police.

The home invaders are
described as being
Caucasians, ages 17 to 20.

One suspect had straight
brown hair. He wore Adidas
“tear away pants” and a dark
dlue or black hooded sweater.

The other suspect bad
blond curly hair and was
wearing a black ski mask. He
carried a large duck sports
bag.

Anyone with information
is asked to call West
Vancouver Police at 925-
7300.

Costly bicycle
frame returns

A Richmond resident
was recently reunited
with his $2,000 bike
frame.

North Vancouver RCMP
Const. Tom Seaman
Richmond man was watching
a television cpisude of Ta
Serve and Protect when he
spotted the frame, stolen from
him two years ago.

North Jancouver
Mounties were filmed in
February responding to a
complaint about two dranken
men trying to enter a work-
shop near the Lynnwood
Hotel.

The men hact been evicted
from the workshop. As police

officers were dealing with the
pair, one officer was filmed
looking at an expensive bike
frame.

Police say the Richmond
man recognized che bike
frame as the one stolen from
his car in Burnaby two years
betore.

He called the police.
Fortunately the officer who
had examined the bike frame
in the workshop recorded its
serial number.

Serial numbers — were
matched with the Burnaby
RCMP file about the bike
thett.

The bike — frame
returned to its awner.

— Anna Marte D'Angelo

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THE following people
appeared in North
Vancouver courts
recently to face various
charges:

Before Judge Doug
Moss in North Vancouver
provincial court on March
4:

Nathan Eee George, 30,
of North Vancouver, was
jailed three days, fined S400,
had bis driver's Heenee sus
pended for J2> months and
received 24 months’ proba-
sion after he pleaded guilty
to:

B orefusing to provide a
breathalyser sample oon
March 13, 1997 an North
Vancouver District;

@ driving without a licence
on the same dav;

break, enter and theft tram

dbusiness in the 700: block of

Apex Avenue in) August
1995,

George pleabargaincd a
charge of hit and ran under
the Criminal Code to the
lesser or included offence of
hit and run under the Motor
Vehicle Act. Uhe original
charge related to the March
13, 1997 incideat.

George was required to
pay $3,300 restitution to the
Burrard Band in connection
with. the burglary conviction.

Before Judge Jerome
Paradis in North
Vancouver provincial court
on March 4:

Paul Andrew Vandal, 25,
address unknown, was jailed
12 months after he pleaded
guilty to the break, enter and
theft from a business in the
1800-block of Marine Drive
on July 8, 1997 in) North
Vancouver District.

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David Barclay Sinclair, 30,
or Burnaby, was jailed one
day and received 12 months*
probation atter he pleaded
guilty to:

@ breaching probation by
failing to report to a proba-
don officer on Dec. 15,
1997;

@ breaching probation by
being found on the North
Shore on Feb, 17;

@ sealing videos and CDs
belonging to Canada Safeway
on Feb. 17) in’ North
Vancouver District.

Before Judge Reginald
Grandison in North
Vancouver provincial court
on March 2;

Benjamin Tyler Watson,
21, of Surrey was tined $280
and had his driver’s licence
suspended for three months
after he pleaded guilty ta:

@ driving withour due care
and attention on West L6th
Sereet_ in’ North Vancouver
District on Dee. 21, 1995;
B failing to remain at an acci-
dent scene on the same day.

Before Judge Bill
Rodgers in North
Vancouver provincial court
on Dec. 30:

Graham) Edward Spragg,
50, of North Vancouver, was
jailed seven days and fined
$300 atter he pleaded guilty
to driving while prohibited
on 3rd Street on May 26,
1997 in North Vancouver
City.

The jail sentence was rec-
ommended served by elec-
tronic monitoring,

Before Judge Reginald
Grandison in North
Vancouver provincial court
on Dec. 10:

Christopher Shaun Faber,
19, of Pitt Meadows, was
jailed 10 days , fined $300
and had his driver's licence
suspended for 12> months
after he pleaded guilty to dri-
ving while prohibited on

Mount Seymour Parkway on
Oct. 5. 1997,

Before Judge Jerome
Paradis in North
Vancouver provincial court

Friday, April 24, 1598 — North Shore News - 41

on Dee. 10:

Gordon Robert Brown, in
his 20s, of North Vancouver.
received 12> monthy’ proba-
tion after he was round guilty

of assaulting a man on July
11, 1996 in West Vancouver.

Brown was required vo
perform 30 hours of commu-
nitv work service.

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