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AN
ESANS,

“VANCOUVER Police

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

joined in the search Monday morning for a fisherman who was swept away

in high water at Capiiano River. To press time the man remained missing.

Capilano claims fisherman

_ By Anna Marie D'Angelo

Aman fishing alone was swept into the
~ gushing Capilano River on Monday morn-
ing, one month after a similar incident led
to'a Richmond resident’s death.
“ThPolice. believe ‘that Frederick Bernard Dyck, 39, of
Langley, dcowned in the river on Monday.
‘The fisherman’s body was not found after an extensive

Police believe the man’s body was swept into the ocean.
Tom Seaman said a

North: Vancouver RCMP. Const.

Q mess saw the fisherman standing by the river’s edge on
some rocks near a. bridge south of the Capilano Fish

Hatchery.

The witness told police that the fisherman appeared to
lean over as if to pick something up out of the water when

stuff,” said

the missing man.

dent.

Centre.

he slipped into the rushing water.
“Those rocks are covered in that green slimy moss
Seaman.

On Tuesday, Dyck’s family confirmed the identity of

On Oct. 1, Richmond resident Gerard Rheal
Desrochers, 34, died after being swept down the Capilano
River while fishing near the same spot as Monday’s inci-

Desrochers was fishing with a friend when he fell into
the rushing water.

Desrochers’ body was recovered two hours later near
the mouth of the river next to Park Royal Shopping

Wednesday, November 5, 1997 — North Shore News — 3

N. Van locker
room yields
deadly find

From page 1

charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree mur-
der.

Mirhadi, 21, of North Vancouver, was shot once in the head and twice
in the body at close range with a 9 mm handgun by a disguised gun man.
A reputed drug dealer, Mirhadi had a conflict with his accused killers sev-
eral days before his murder.

North Vancouver Mounties
used wiretaps to monitor private
conversation between Caster and
other persons.

According to police search war-
rant information, police found a
fully loaded Mauser-Werve hand-
gun in Caster’s Kawasaki motorcy-
cle after his arrest on Sept. 13.

The search warrant focused on
the activities of Caster’s mother last
month.

Caster lived with his mother and
sister in a highrise at Marine Drive
and Capilano Road.

Police said that on Oct. 17
Nicou got two locker keys for her
apartments’ basement lockers.

- Nicou asked to borrow a trolley
the next afternoon. That evening,
police say another tenant of the

uilding discovered a large black
canvas Bag pushed under the gate
of her locker. The tenant called
police when she saw a gun inside -
the bag. Two assault rifles described
as an AR- 15 ( a civilian version of
the M-16) and 4 MAK-90 ( a civil-
ian version of the AK- 47) were in
the bag. Both assaule rifles had
obliterated serial numbers. In dif-
ferent areas of the lockers’ room
and in two separate pieces, police
say they found parts of a 12-gauge
shotgun.

According to the search warrant,
Nicou indicated to apartment man-
agement that she had spoken to a
lawyer and was going to empzy the

ACCUSED killers Michael

Caster (top) and Jon ‘doroury
are in custody with a prelimi-
nary hearing set for February.

of realtor’s

contents of her three storage lock-

wy Police probe of Kerry Dix’s death continues

By Robert Galster
Reporter
THE death of a West
Vancouver real estate devel- -
‘oper last Wednesday contin-
es to be shrouded in mys-
Cry. .

. Kerry.Dix, 50, was found dead in.

; the bedroom of his Bellevue Avenue
: home with a syringe next to him.
“We really are unsure at this
‘point what happened,” said Joel
O'Reilly, Dix’s nephew, from the
Dix residence.

.“He was found at home, and we
‘don’t know too much more about

the cause of death at this point.”

West Vancouver Police

kesman Sgt. Jim Almas added

t detectives are continuing their
” investigation.

“The cause of death has not yet
been determined,” said Almas.
“Foul play has not been ruled out

. (and) it has not been concluded as a
suicide.”

Almas said an autopsy has been
~” conducted but the resultant toxicol-
* ogy report has not been forwarded
- to the police.

Dix was a principal in The Dix
Group, which specialized in the
acquisition, development and resale
of properties.

The company’s latest project, a

~ San Diego development called River
Colony, was marketed on the

“The cause of
death has not yet
been determined.
Foul play has not

been ruled out

(and) it has not
been concluded

as a suicide.”

— West Vancouver Palice
spekesman Sgt. Jim Almas

Internet.

According to information posted
on the project’s website, Dix
planned to “acquire in excess of
$150,000,000 in commercial and
multi-family properties throughout
1996/1997 by way of direct asset
purchase or the purchase of financial
instruments backed by multi-family
units.”

Dix was also well known in real
estate circles on the North Shore
where he was active in the ’70s and

Os.

Last year, Dix landed in British
Columbia Supreme Court after a
suit against him was launched by
North American Property
Corporation (NAPC) for the repay-
ment of the outstanding balance of
$375,000 lent to Dix and another
company.

NAPC president John Windsor
of West Vancouver had no comment
on Dix short of saying the matter
was resolved.

North Vancouver lawyer Keith
Burrell first met Dix in '981 and
although he didn’t have any direct
dealings with him, they have shared
clients over the years.

“It (Dix’s death) was a big
shock,” said Burrell. “He was actual-
ly quite decent to deal with.”

Dix’s nephew O'Reilly said the
future of the The Dix Group is up in
the air at this point.

“We don’t know what’s going on
at this point,” said ter the
just to get through it right
now and that's a we care about.”

Dix was the adopted son of
Wendy McDonald, owner of one-
time North Vancouver company
B.C. Bearing Engineers Ltd.

A memorial service for Dix was
held last Sunday at St. Francis in the
Wood Anglican Church in West
Vancouver.

Dix is survived by widow Lynn,
who is a former West Vancouver fig-
ure skater. He had three children:
Bill, Cameron and Mya in addition
to grandson Cody.

ers into her apartment and that “nobody was to be in her apartment, even,
and especially, the police.”

Meanwhile more gun parts were found in two storage rooms. Police say
they found a shotgun stock and receiver in a gray bag under another lock-
er door. A barrel and fore stock of a shotgun wrapped in the legs of a pair
of blue jeans was under the door of a different locker.

Police did not find clips to a M-16 and AK-47. The search warrant
requested permission to go into Nicou’s apartment on Oct. 24.

Nicou and Caster do not have the Firearms Acquisition Certificates or
Restricted Weapun Registration Certificates necessary to possess guns,
according to the search warrant.

Meanwhile Nicou has written to the prime minister and the United
Nations about what she perceives as groundless
murder allegations against her son. Nicou stat-
ed in her letter that she would go on a hunger
strike if the United Nations doesn’t investigate
her claims.

Meanwhile the father of the other accused
killer in the Mirhadi case is back in Canada after
a short trip to London, England. Nader
Moroury was under a departure order after a
failed refugee claim. The refugee claim started
three years ago when Nader, his son Jon and
daughter Natasha, now 14, arrived ar the
Douglas Border crossing.

Days before his son was charged with mur-
der, Nader Moroury approached West
Vancouver-Sunshine Coast Reform MP John
Reynolds for help with his immigration prob-
lems. Nader Moroury, who lived in the 3000-
block of Fromme Road in Lynn Valley, told
Reynolds he had received bad legal advice from
- a lawyer who told him to make a refugee claim.
On his return from England in October, Nader Moroury was permitted to
stay in‘Canada as a visitor.

Reynolds said that Nader Moroury was permitted to come into Canada
for less than three months as a visitor on compassionate grounds due to his
son’s situation.

Reynolds said he spoke to an assistant deputy minister of immigration
in Ottawa on Tuesday morning who indicated that Moroury is not allowed
to file a new refugee claim.

Reynolds said that a federal government report indicates that Canada
has become a refuge for international criminals. Reynolds said 38,000
people in Canada “jumped the queue” as far as immigration goes and are

ikely receiving welfare, free medical and free legal aid at taxpayers’

expense. Reynolds questioned the logic of people allowed to file refugee
claims from within Canada or from a safe country such as the United States
“If they are already in the United States, let them solve their problems
there,” said Reynolds.

MO Mirhadi killed in
theatre in February