3 - Sunday, September 22, 1985 - North Shore News

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€ntertainment....... 23
Fashion............ 13
Lifestyles...........27
Mailbox.............7
Sports.............17
Sunshine Girl........29
What's Going On.....30

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WEATHER:

: Sunday through Tuesday,
: mainly sunny. Highs,
: 14-19°C.

Lifestyles: 27
Moms and babies get the
best at LGH.

Silver dollar was bad luck |
for service station owner

ee, : SERVICE STATION operator Joe Klein says he that Klein was arrested on September 12. All were

is n ‘ : . suspicion of receiving stolen subsequently released.
s not going to serve the RCMP again until they property and that no subse- Because the matter is still

apologize. quent charges were laid under investigation, RCMP

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members of the North Van- TIMOTHY RENSHAW According to the police details.

couver detachment of
brutality and generally
overzealous conduct in con-
nection with a September 12
incident in which he was ar-
rested for suspicion of
receiving stolen property.

The eight-year operator of
Lynnmour Gulf service sta-
tion at 185 Mountain
Highway said his ordeal
began at approximately 3:30
p.m. September 12 when a
car with four people pulled
into his station.

According to Klein, the
car’s driver approached him
and asked if he would trade
$4 worth of gas for a silver
dollar.

“I don’t collect coins, but
I know a silver dollar is
worth about five bucks. So 1
figured why not?”

No sooner had he:

pocketed the dollar, Klein
said, ‘“‘than a flock of
policemen swarmed in on
me, threw me against the
counter of my office, and
handcuffed me in front of
my staff and customers.”’
The service station opera-
tor said he was informed
that he was being arrested on
suspicion of receiving stolen
property, whereupon he was
escorted outside ‘‘and
brutally shoved in a police
car.’?

After spending approx-
imately three hours at North
Vancouver’s RCMP station,
where Klein said his requests
to make a telephone call
were denied, he was releas-
ed.

“T had an unattended
child coming home from
schoc! and they wouldn't
even give me a ride home. |
had to take a cab which
ended up costing me six
bucks.”

Klein said he knows the
officers who arrested him,
because they come into his
station occasionally for
repairs and gas.

He has a hard time con-
trolling his anger over the
incident: ‘‘I mean these guys

know who I am. The whole - ™

thing is: totally ridiculous.
There was no apology after

_ it was all over. Nothing. If

this is the way the RCMP in
North Vancouver go about

their business, well, all I can
say is their mentality has
sunk to a very low point.”
North Vancouver RCMP
Cst. Alison’ Irons of the
detachment’s community
policing division confirms

report, the silver dollar in
question was stolen earlier
that day in a North Van-
couver break and_ enter,
Irons said. The occupants of
the car and the driver who
offered the coin to Klein
were also taken into custody

Klein said that until he
receives an apology or some
explanation, he hes in-
structed his staff to refrain
from serving police officers
at his station. He adds that
he will discuss the whole af-
fair with his solicitor.

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

A DISGUSTED Joe Klein holds at arm’s length the cause for his recent feud with North
Vancouver RCMP. The service station operator was arrested September 12 on suspicion of
receiving stolen property in the form of a single silver dollar. Klein has refused to serve
RCMP personel until they apologize for what he considers unfair treatment at their hands.

MONTROYAL: “fire -
“hall needs a new: roof and”
—eNeorth Vancouver District :
2 Council, wants to” know:
why. :
e The hall was only built .
-in/1974 and the roof, had-.
a two-year guarantee, but’...
“itis leaking badly. :

Council ‘questioned

; what went wrong with the.

‘and if: fraud: could.
© volved. ;

a two-year: guarantee,’
how:-roofs : are: inspected:

Couircil asked for .
report: about. the: present,’
condition of the roof and’
an: update, on ‘the’ tenders: .
which, has © already, -been’
given out.” ;