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. LAWRENCE FWASAKI displays his sudden lack of jewelled accompaniment. The West

i f Vancouver busin:ssman fost $101,000 worth of personal jewelry when a thief made off

‘with his briefcase Friday. The briefcase containing Iwasaki’s jewels was stolen from the

§ Vancouver office of Maison Lawrence Coiffures Ltd. Iwasaki is offering a reward for
s: the return of the briefcase. The theft is the second from Iwasaki’s salon.

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September 15, 1985 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 44 pages 25¢

Jewelry heist costs
WV man $100,000

A WEST VANCOUVER se on,

fashion
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lost

$103,000 worth of uninsured persona! jewelry
Thursday, but it isn’t the first time his jewels have

been ripped off.

Lawrence Iwasaki, owner
of Maison Lawrence Cuif-
fures at 541 Seymour Street
in Vancouver, said his brief-
case containing the jewelry
was stolen froin the office of
his hairdressing salon at ap-
proximately 5 p.m. Thurs-
day, after the back door to
the building had been ac-
cidentally left open.

“*T was just combing out a
client's hair for two minutes
and when | came back to the
office, the briefcase was
gone,” says Iwasaki.

In a surprisingly jovial
frame of mind, Iwasaki told
the News Friday that the
small fortune of jewels,
which included a seven-carat
diamond ring and a four-
carat diamond necklace, was
part of his normal personal
ensemble: ‘‘I usually wear
the stuff. I’m a kind of a
flashy guy, they call me
Liberace the second. But it
just so happened that I had
left them in the briefcase
yesterday and now they're

gone.”’
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| By TIMOTHY RENSHAW |

Iwasaki says Thursday's
theft is the second time he
has paid for his flam-
boyance. In an earlier theft
from the same salon, he says
he lost $200,000 worth of
personal jewelry.

“So this is it, no more
jewels, [t's just not worth
jt.”’

SECOND THEFT

Acting Cpl. Robert Creech
of the Vancouver police says
the briefcase was taken in a
“snatch and grab’’ style
theft between 4:45 and 5:50
p.m. The thief, he says, is
still at large and none of the
jewels have been recovered
thus far. A police investiga-
tion into the theft is continu-
ing.

As to why he had no in-_

surance on his jewels,
Iwasaki simply said that in-
surance policies on jewelry
are ‘‘pretty expensive,

Escort owner
under fire

ESCORT OPERATOR Carol McNeill is under
fire from North Vancouver City Council.

The local businesswoman
has been asked for the se-
cond time to appear before
council to convince Mayor
Loucks and aldermen that
her businesses are not fronts
for prostitution, and to show

cause why her business
licences should not be
revoked,

This time, however, the

request is regarding her
Comfort Zone Escorts
operation.

McNeill was first asked to
appear July 22 to show cause
why her business licence for
Interlude Escorts should not
be revoked.

Residents angry: 3

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

besides like I say, I usually
wear the jewelry.’’

CARRYING UNSAFE

Joe Stonehvuse of
McNeill, Stonehouse, and
Associates insurance com-
pany says the average cost of
insuring jewelry is $1.50 per
$100 annually: ‘‘For
anything over $30,000 most
insurance companies would
insist on the installation of a
household alarm system or a
safe. But | would doubt any
company would insure any
amount of jewels if they
found out the prospective
policy-holder planned to
walk around with those
jewels in a briefcase.”’

Iwasaki regards his loss
with good-humored
philosphical bravado, ‘‘I
mean what can I do. The
jewels are not my life. The
most valuable things lost are
my business papers, my ad-
dress book, and my credit
cards."’

Iwasaki says he is offering
a reward, as yet undetermin-
ed, ‘‘but probably a couple
of thousand’, for the return
of the briefcase and its con-
tents.

Tut McNeill and lawyer
Tim Maledy filed a petition
in the Supreme Court of
B.C. to find council’s re-
quest out of order.

North Van City Council
approved a motion 6-1 put
forth by Ald. Stella Jo Dean
Monday, requesting McNeill
show cause why her business
licence should not be revok-

ed.
See City
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