NEWS BRIEFS

Drugs seized

THE WEST VANCOUVER Police drug squad recently
seized $27,509 worth of marijuana and psilocybin
mushrooms.
According to a police spekesman a search warrant was
executed in the 3100-block of Grandview Highway in
Vancouver at 2:45 p.m on Dec. 23.
Potice confiscated four pounds of marijuana and some
mushrooms.
Charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking
are 31-year-old Robert James Jenkinson and Robert per tn

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House fire

THE WEST Vancouver Fire Department was called to a
Christmas Eve house fire that started after children
played with lit candles.

A fire department spokesraan said the fire broke out
at a house located in the 300 block of Westmount Rd.
The spokesman said that two children had taken some
candies from a bathroom into a bedroom and lit them
on fire.

The house sustained smoke damage. There was also
damage done to a mattress. There were no injuries.

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According to a police spokesman, no impaired charges ;

were issued, but many vehicle defects were observed and

ticketed.
The roadblocks will be set up throughout the North

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Searchers comb for
second missing man

FOR THE second time in 10 days the North Shore Search
and Rescue Team was dispatched to a local mountain to

find a missing man.

Volunteer team members, join-
ed by members of the Seymour
Ski Patrol, searched Mount
Seymour on Tuesday to try and
locate Brian Jacklan, 36, of
‘Richmond who had failed to
return home from a day of
snowshoeing om the mountain.

Police found Jacklan’s car
parked at the mountain.

On Tuesday morning, RCMP
brought in a helicopter to assist
with the search.

North and West Vancouver
Emergency Program coordinator
Ross Peterson said the man had
gone snowshoeing on Mount
Seymour on Monday by himself
and was scheduled to return to his
Richmond home by mid after-
noon.

The man’s wife reported him
missing at 10 p.m. when her hus-
band did not return home.

Peterson said the North Shore
Rescue Team was dispatched to
Mount Seymour at 10:30 p.m.
Monday and spent the entire
night searching for the missing
man, —

“The search hasn’t shown any-
thing so far. He had a pack and
some provisions, but 1 don’t think
he had a sleeping bag or a tent
with him. a

“He has been described to us as

an experienced woodsman who is.

By Surj Rattan

News Reporter

in excellent physical shape,’’ said
Peterson.

He added that the searchers are
at a disadvantage because they do
not know where on the mountain
the man had been snowshoeing.

“We're searching all the ski
areas and the areas adjacent to the
ski areas. That’s one of the prob-
lems we're facing, not knowing
where he went. It’s a very big
area,’ said Peterson.

“Last night (Monday and early
Tuesday) it was quite windy and
cold and that hampered our
search because the tracks were all
covered up.”’

Monday was the second time in
less than two weeks that the North
Shore Search and Rescue Team
has been dispatched to local
mountains.

On Dec. 19 the team was sent
to ‘Cypress Bowl in West Van-
couver to search for two out-of-
bounds skiers who got caught in
an avalanche.

Earl Gregory Kurz, 31, of Co-
quitlam was eventually found by a
North Vancouver man who was
cross-country skiing. Still missing
is William Eugene Leboe, 34, of
Westbank.

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