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NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP Const. Reg Cardinal holds up a sawed-off shotgun police confiscated during a drug raid in Burnaby this week. The police also seized
$1,700 worth of cocaine, $25,000 worth of marijuana plants and $2,200 in cash. The drug raid also resulted in the arrests of several North Vancouver residents.

'N. Shore police nab sister of Daniel Possee in Burnaby narcotics bust

from his meeting with one of the
suspects at Westview Drive. |

“**On anything like this we have
to worry about the security of our

On Tuesday night, North Van-
couver RCMP and’ West. Van-
couver Police drug squad
members raided a Burnaby resi-
dence and arrested six North Van-
couver residents.

Police also. confiscated drugs,

cash, and recovered a sawed-off:

shotgun.

One of the people arrested in
the drug raid was North. Van-
couver resident Kelly Possee, the
sister of Daniel Possee, who was
fatally shot las? year in North
Vancouver during a drug raid.

His death is the focus of a cor-
oner’s inquest this week,

“. The police say they had no
prior knowledge that Kelly Possee
would be in the Burnaby basement
suite when they executed their
drug raid.

The North Shore News, which
had been negotiating with the
North Veacouver RCMP for two
weeks to go along on a drug raid,
was at the scene when the arrests
were made.

By Sur] Rattan
News Reporter

AT 7:30 p.m. ‘Tuesday night, four
North Vancouver RCMP drug
squad members and one West
Vancouver drug squad officer
gather in the back parking lot of
the North Vancouver RCMP
detachment.

They are planning a raid on a
Burnaby basement suite at 4679
Canada Way. Their target on this
night is 24-year-old North Van-

couver resident Robert Vesty.

Based on information gathered
from an informant and a two-
weck surveillance stint, the police
believe they will find a significant
quantity of drugs in the Burnaby
residence.

On this night, the police are
looking for cocaine as well as a
marijuana growing operation.

Two of the police officers in-
volved in this drug raid, RCMP
Const. Sylvain Leroux and RCMP
Const. John McDougall, were also
involved in a drug raid last year in
North Vancouver. On that outing,
22-year-old Daniel Possee, of
North Vancouver, was fatally shot
by a West Vancouver Police drug
squad officer.

Leroux, dressed in street
clothes, is driving an old beat-up

van. He will attempt to make the
drug buy and drives towards the
Westview Drive area to meet with
one of two suspects.

The suspect Leroux meets with
will call a second suspect to in-
form him that he knows someone
who is interested in buying 3.5
grams of cocaine.

The second suspect is at the
Burnaby basement suite.

The rest of the officers involved
in the raid head east along the
Upper Levels Highway towards
Canada Way in Burnaby.

At 8:04 p.m., the drug squad
members, who are all driving un-
marked cars, pull into the rear
parking lot of a commercial build-
ing at Canada Way near Will-
ingdon Avenue.

They wait for Leroux to arrive

undercover officer,’ says West
Vancouver drug squad member
Const. Trevor James as he waits
in the parking lot.

Leroux arrives and tells the

team that he. is waiting for a
phone call. He is expected to meet
with the drug dealer in front of a
convenience store on Canada
Way. :
The other units leave the park-
ing lot to take up surveillance
positions around the convenience
store. James has positioned
himself at a church next to the
store,

See Drug squad page 3