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A POLICE RAID of a pleasure boat at‘a West
Vancouver marina netted a gun, ammunition,
drugs and drug paraphernalia.

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And a New Westminster
man was sentenced Thursday
to six years in prison after
pleading guilty to possession
of a restricted weapon,
possession of stolen property
in relation to the weapon
and possession of heroin for
the purpose of trafficking.

Robert Henry Clark; 52,
who was unrepresented at
the court hearing, received

one year each on the first:

two charges, to be served
concurrently, and five years
on the drug charge.

West Vancouver Police
arrested Clark just
midnight Thursday when

‘police raidéd the 23-foot .

pleasure boat Willy-Em on
which he was living at the
Thunderbird Marina, 5776
Marine Drive.

ANONYMOUS TIP

Police conducted their in-
vestigation based on an
anonymous telephone call,
in which a calfer told about a
suspicious person.

West Vancouver Police
then proceeded to the
marina where they arrested
Clark.

Acting under a_ search
warrant, police recovered a
.357 calibre handgun, 100

ity wins escort court

. Judge M. R. Taylor
dismissed MecNceill’s petition
to quash the city’s request to
have her brought before
council.

Ald. Stella Jo Dean had
made July and September

“motions to bring McNeill,
“operator of Interlude Escorts

and Comfort Zone Escorts,

“before council to show cause

A SUPREME court judge ruled Tuesday that
North Vancouver City was justified in calling
escort operator Carol McNeill before it.

BARRETT FISHER

why her business licences
should not be revoked.
Publicity stating that In-
terlude Escorts was a front
for prostitution motivated
Dean to make the motions,
as she said: ‘‘There have
been some pretty strong

allegations,”’

But MeNeill and lawyers
Tim Maledy and Nancy
Wilhelm-Morden filed a
petition with the Supreme
Court saying the city’s re-
quest was out of order.

PROCEEDED PROPERLY

Wilhelm-Morden told the
News Thursday that Judge
Taylor essentially found the
city had proceeded properly
and that it had a duty to in-
vestigate the business licence

of McNeill.

“The procedures the city
took were within the scope
of their powers,'’
Withelm-Morden said the
judge found. ‘‘They were
entitled to listen to a police
officer on the issue, who
didn’t say anything
specifically related to
MeNeill’s case. North Van
City is now entitled to have
its hearing.’’

Wilhelm-Morden said her
client McNeill, Maledy and
herself received ‘‘a_ very

good hearing” from Judge
Taylor.

APPEAL UNDECIDED

But Wilhelm-Morden ad-
ded that they are. still
considering whether to ap-
peal the Supreme Court
decision.

Speaking Thursday, Dean
said: “I never doubted for
One moment that we would
win. We have awesome
powers according to the
municipal act. If this was

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By DAWN BURKE

rounds of .22 ‘calibre am-
munition, 25 rounds of am-
munition believed to be .25
calibre, .200 rounds of .30
calibre ammunition, M-1
carbine ammunition, .83
rounds of .357 ammunition
and three empty .357 calibre
casings.

HEROIN RECOVERED
Police also recovered ‘37

grams of heroin, approx-
imately two ounces, worth

-about $40,000 in their uncut

form, police said.

Drug paraphernalia such
as. balloons, caps, Epsom
salts,. glucose and scales,
which are products frequent-
ly used in the cutting and
capping of heroin, were also
recovered, police said.

The weapon recovered by
police had .been | reported
stolen from’ a Matsqui resi-
dence over two years ago...

A spokesman for
Thunderbird Marina said she
had no knowledge of how
long Clark had been living in
his boat at the marina and
that he would have had to be
living there illegally as it
contravenes West Vancouver
bylaws.

overthrown by the courts,
municipalities all over would
lose their power and not be-
able to handle situations. 1
don’t know why we went to
court in the first place.”
Mayor Jack Loucks said
he was happy with the out-
come ofthe case: ‘I’m glad
because we thought we were
in the right; we thought we
had a strong: case. Council
has tried to be fair and just
in everything we’ve done.”’

Loucks said McNeill’s coun-
cil date has not yet been set.