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Sunday, November 7, 1999 — North Shore News — 41

Home-made bomb found

SOMETHING suspi-
cious was found near

Someplace Special
Thursday afternoon.

An RCMP bomb disposal
squad was called to the high-
end Canada Safeway-owned
store at Caulfeild Village
Shopping Centre to remove 3
miniature bomb.

A customer of the super-
market found the home-made
device in the baby seat of a
shopping buggy three metres
outside the store’s doors at
abour 12:30 p.m.

West Vancouver Police
spokesman) Const. Harry
MeNeil said police were called
at 1:21 p.m. and were on scene
six minutes later, He said a
store employee had already
moved the device to a garbage

can beside the store near a
loading bay by the time police
arrived.

Business continued at the
store with minor disruption.

A search of the area was
done and no other devices were
found.

The RCMP bomb disposal
squad arrived at 2:52 p.m.

“We have one Screamin’
Demon firecracker with 14 fit-
tle brass bolts, not even screws,
but bolts, some black tape and
a couple picces of cardboard.
That's the bomb,” — said
MeNeil. He said a Screamin’
Demon whirls around and
sereeches when lit.

The device, about 7.5 cen-
timetres long, will be examined
for fingerprints and other clues.

Police have no suspects.

Safeway management at

Warrant extended in

search for police officer

4 Canada-wide warrant has been issued for the arrest of a for-
mer North Vancouver Mountie.

Scott Simpson, 38, did not show up for court on Oct, 25 in
connection with trafficking marijuana charges. Lawyers involved
in the case believe Simpson is in Ontario. North Vancouver
provincial court issued a warrant for Simpson’s arrest. The warrant
applied B.C. wide, but was extended last Thursday to Canada
wide. North Vancouver RCMP Const. Heidi Hoffman said the
warrant was changed after Simpson did not return calls from his
lawyer. Simpson will be charged criminally with failing to appear
in court.

“Our position is that our detachment is quite embarrassed by
this whole thing especially since it has come to this,” said
Hoffman. “We just want te sce justice served now as quickly as
possible.”

Simpson is a 12-year RCMP veteran who worked on patrol in
North Vancouver for four years. The charges relate to allegations
that Simpson trafficked marijuana to male student teenagers.
Hoffinan said school liaison Mounties worked hard to establish
good rapport with students and suffered a major setback because

of the Simpson allegations.

arrested at work,

Simpson | quit the RCMP in March, one month after he was

—Anna Marie D’Angelo

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