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BAY BREAK-IN

Police recover jewelry valued at $29,000

THREE North Vancouver men, two aged 20 and
the other aged 18, have been charged with break-
ing and entering and theft over $200 after police
recovered an estimated $29,000 worth of jewelry
ata Coquitlam shopping centre.

James Anthony Ice and
Bruce Robert Pongray, both
20, and Philip John Won-

nacou, 18, were charged as
the result of police investiga
tion of the break-in whic

occurred carty Monday
Police were alerted to the
crime by security guards at
the Bay store at Coquitlam
Centre at 3:45 a.m. Monday
Port Moody municipal
police, aided by a tracking
dog, picked up the trails of
three men who had ben in

terrupted by = the
guards

After a brief search, two
of the men were found
hiding tn the stock room of
the store

Police continued scarching
and found a third man on
the roof of the shopping cen

socurity

tre

The jewelry was recovered
at the same time

The break-in attempt was
the second this summer in
volving theft of a large
amount of jewelry.

in July, cUhleves hit the
Katons outlet at Park Royal

South and escaped with tens
of thousands of dollars
worth of jewelr

Some of that loot was re
covered and two Vancouver
men were arresied later as
the result of undercover

pohce investigation of | the
theft