NEWS BRIEFS
Murder charge

A 20-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man has been
charged with first-degree murder following a stabbing
death early Saturday morning on Robson Street in Van-
couver.

Darryl Christopher Kirby also faces an attempted
murder charge.

Both charges stem from a confrontation between
members of an East Vancouver Hispanic group of
youths and a loca! group of youths who call themselves
the North Vancouver Locals.

The dead man is 21-year-old Darren: James Ford of
Burnaby. Carlos Escobar, 23, of Vancouver, suffered
stab wounds as a result of the altercation on Robson.

Hours before the incident downtown, members of the
two groups confronted each other ai the EWA dance hall
at 13th Avenue and Commercial Drive. A shot was fired
by one suspect and another man was stabbed in the
stomach.

An 18-year-old Burnaby man, Antonio Henrique
Rosa, faces charges of possession of an unregistered
restricted weapon ard pointing a firearm.

Bikes lifted

A THIEF rolled away approximately $2,600 worth of
bicycles Nov. 16 after breaking into a locked garage at a
home !ccated in the 1100-bliock of Heywood Street in
North Vancouver City.

The loss of the two mountain bikes was discovered on
Tuesday morning.

Both bikes were Allegro 12-speeds.

One of the bikes, engraved with the number 5162237,
ts red and white and is fitted with a dual halogen light
set and a bike computer.

The second bike hes a bare aluminum frame, yrey-
colored forks, steer horns on the handle bars and a red
sear carrier. The bike is engraved with the number
1334704.

Information regarding this theft may be forwarded to

the North Vancouver RCMP at 985-1311.

Reformer nominated

NORTH VANCOUVER'S Dr. Herb Gruber captured the
Reform Party of Canada nomination in the federal
Capilanc-Howe Sound riding on Tuesday night with 251

votes.

Gruber won on the first ballot.

West Vancouver Schoo! District 45 trustee Margot
Fark placed second with 170 votes, followed hy Neil
Thompson with 41 votes and Eric Cant with 13.

A total of 471 votes were cast and 501 votes were
issued. There were no spoiled ballots.

Just over 560 people attended the nomination meeting.

Informant told police
no weapons in house

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“The acting corporal for the
RCMP said he believed you were
going to knock and announce
your entry,’’ said Corrigan.

**Yes,’’ replied Pollitt.

“Then why did it end up dif-
ferent?’’ continued Corrigan.

“? have no idea,”’ said Pollitt.

“So you obviously made it
perfectly clear to (RCMP) Cpl.
Lee what you intended to
do,’ said Corrigan.

“Well, I guess it was not clear
to him,”’ replied Pollitt.

Corrigan aiso told Pollitt that a
second RCMP officer, Sylvain
Leroux, also believed Pollitt was
first going to knock at the door
and announce the police entry.

“Did you actually believe he
(Possee) was attempting to shoot
officer Bruce?”’ asked Corrigan.

“That’s what it appeared to me,
without a doubt. The information
that is missing is what he (Possee)
was thinking. | really wish I
knew,’’ replied Pollitt.

“By knocking and announcing
your presence, this incident might
not have happened,’’ continued
Corrigan.

“J can’t say that. Not knowing
what was going on in Danny
Possee’s mind puts me at a bit of
a setback,” said Pollitt.

Pollitt said that he had talked
to an informant at about 8 p.m.
on the night of the shooting and
was told that there was between
two and 2% pounds of marijuana
in the house and that King had
been selling the drug out of the

DANIEL POSSEE was fatally
shot shortly after 11 p.m. on
May 12 by West Vancouver
Police drug squad member
Const. Tim Pollitt.

house that night.

Asked by Corrigan if he
bothered to get a description of
the people in the house, Pollitt
said he did not.

“‘Were you interested at all in
the descriptions of the people in
the house?”’ asked Corrigan.

“For the purpose of executing
the search warrant, no,’’ replied
Pollitt.

He also admitted that his in-
formant told him the occupants of
the house were ‘mellow’? and
non-violent and that there were
no weapons inside the house.

The inquest continues.

BOWEN ISLAND

Change in
ferry times
made to aid
commuters

THE B.C. Ferry Corp.
(BCFC) will change the
Bowen Island-Horseshoe
Bay sailing schedule to im-
prove bus connections for
morning commuters.

By Juiie Ovenell-Carter
Contributing Writer

At a town meeting sponsored
by the Bowen Island Transporta-
tion Committee last Saturday,
BCFC cperations manager Capt.
Tom Whelan told a vocal group
of 50 islanders that advancing the
first two morning sailings by 10
minutes will ensure people get to
work and school on time.

Whelan said he currently
receives ‘‘at feast half a dozen
phone cails’’ each morning from
disgruntled commuters.

The new Queen cf Capilano is
consistently fate on its morning
runs, which start from Snug Cove
at §:55 a.m.

Commuters often miss connec-
ting with the express Blue Buses to
Vancouver, and Bowen's 122 high
schoo! students are frequently late
for the start of class.

Whelan said ‘‘multiple vessels
moving in and out of Horseshoe
Bay within 10 minutes of each
other’’ create delays in the morn-
ing.

He said the recently completed
Snug Cove dock repairs tem-
porarily worsened the situation.

Whelan aiso said the safety re-
quirements ‘‘imposed"’ after the
Nemetz inquiry, such as waiting
for the mate to be on the car deck
before lowering the ramp, ‘‘have
added two or three minutes to our
docking time.”’

Under the proposed new sched-
ule, to begin *‘as soon as the
marketing and public relations
people can get it in place,’’ the
Queen of Capilano will depart
Snug Cove at 5:45 a.m.; 6:35
a.m.; 7:35 a.m. (no change}; 8:30
a.m. (no change); 9:25 a.m., 10:50
a.m. (no change); 11:40 a.m.; and
12:30 p.m.

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