Cr

WEST Vancouver Police ended ;
September by busting a grow opera-
tion in a British Properties house.

Police, acting ana tip, get 3 search warrant
Sept. 30 for a house on the 1000-block of
Crestline Road. It had been occup
year-old male and an 18-vear-old female for the
past year,

The house was under surveiilance by police
during the day. Three Vancouver mal
year-old and ovo 21-year-old
in a vehicle and were checked by patrol officers.
Ten pounds of marijuana was seized trom the
vehicle and the three males were arrested.

The house was raided at 7:30 p.m., said Sgt.
Jim Almas. The two occupants were arrested

per ation |

and officers found 522 marijuana piants in a

soil-based grow operation and $5,000 worth of

equipment

‘The pet is worth an estimated $300,000 on
the street, Alatas said.

The five people face charges of production of
a controlled substance and possesion of i
trolled substance for the purpose of trafficking.

They are scheduled to make a first appear-
ance betore a judge on Nov. 24 in) North
Vancouver Provincial Court.

Almas, citing West) Vancouver Police
Department's policy, would not disclose the
names of the accused. He said the individuals
have ne apparent ties te any organized crime
groups

—— Bob Mackin

Wider causeway lanes urged

From pane 3

over the decision not to

n the causeway.

¢ park board voiced its
preferences and concerns for
the First Narrows crossing
during a four-year compre-
hensive public’ consultation
process, but the province is
responsible for the rencva-
tions to the Lions Gate
Bridge and the causeway, he
said.

“From the outsct, the park
board’s position has always
been that any option for the
First Narrows should ade-
quately address the trans-
portation needs of stakchold-
ers while reducing environ-

iting the matter would
require reopening the public
consultation process, which is
ourside the board's control,
he said.
Boname responded Thesday
by writing to Bhir Redlin,
president of che BC.
Transportation finance
Authority -— which is respon-
sible for the renovations to
the bridge and canseway —
demanding that the public
consultation process —_ be
reopened and that West
Vancouver council have a say
the discussions (West
Vancouver council = was
refused input in the previous
consultation pracess by the
province).

mental impacts on Stanley

MAYOR Boname secks

Council wants the causeway
lanes to be widened and last

Park, However, it was the causeway consultation. :
provincial governmcnt’s week voted to seck an injunc- WEST Vancouver Police Sgt. Jim Almas ciutches a bushei of buds from a Sept. 30

responsibility, not the park board’s, to consid- tic to stop construction on the causeway police raid on a house [n the 1000-block of Crestiine Road. Police seized 522 mar-
er stakeholder input into a decision that meets until the matter is resolved. Construction is ijuana plants, worth $$€0,000, and arrested five pecple.

various financial, social and environmental cri- going on now to widen the sidewalk along the

teria.” narrow road.

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