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The arrests of three Vancouver youths by West
- Vancouver detectives have led to the recovery of $25,000
worth of stolen. goods with the help of Vancouver
detectives, according to police reports. Arrested and
charged by West Van police with possession of stolen
_ prop perty and theft on March 20 were: Steven Edward
~ Giesbrocht, 20, of 269 E, 23rd Avenue; Ralph Murray.
Bodenschatz, 19, of 238 E. 23rd Avenues and Eric Carl
Lofstrom, 19, of 975 E. 20th Avenue. The suspects were
arrested at the scene and charged with possession and
thoft under $200 of items stolen from vehicles In an West
- Van underground parking lot. Spin-off investigations led -
police to the maultl-thousand dollar recovery

Drunk - driving costs $500

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Brian Prentice, 30, of 2195 Chatrlift Road, Wost

Vancouver has been found guilty of driving with an

alcohol-blood reading of .17, and fined $500 or 15 days in.

jail, Prentice was arrested by West Vancouver police

about 12:10 a.m. March 3 after! he crossed the Lions Gate
Bridge. Provincial court Judge Alfred Watts also
suspended his driver's license for three months.

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SIX-STOREY plunge from this apartment block at 105
. West Kelth Rd. ended life of Nelson Victor Garner, 22.
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convicted ‘of 50 ‘counts ‘of. "breaking ‘and entry
: - involving thousands of dollars and was sentenced |
last week to a penitentiary term of 3. years. by
_ North Vancouver provincial court Judge J. Layton.

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By Guillermo Lam

Gordon Rolland Lackey,
who was described in a
probation officer’s report as
coming from a family with a .
difficult background, was
arrested by RCMP detectives

at the scene of a break-i -in
Jan. 31.

. Investigations into robber-
ies,. which ‘included $3,600
worth. .stolen from two
Lonsdale ' jewelry stores,
connected Lackey to the

incidents.

Police evidence showed
that in one residential
break-in alone Lackey gained
entry through a window and
stole $1,500 worth of cash
and jewelry from a New
Westminster home. Similar
offences for which he was
charged in Burnaby were
also waived to North Van-

couver provincial court for
trial.

Defence counsel David
Brown asked Judge. Layton to
consider that Lackey had
been in juvenile homes,

foster homes and in institu-
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‘He urged the judge to give
Lackey ‘an. opportunity to
change his life. ‘‘The best
way to protect the. public i is to |
rehabilitate him,’’. the de-

fence suggested. =

Prosecutor Barry Sullivan
in his submission, however,
stressed that none
stolen goods has _ been.
recovered, and there is no

chance of ever recovering
them.

“They amount to thous-
ands of dollare,’’ Sullivan
said. ‘“‘We're dealing with
break and entry, one of the
most serious offences under.
the Canadian Criminal Code.
This is brought home by. the
fact that the maximum
sentence is’ life imprison-
ment,’’ he added.

‘A penitentiary term not.

only is desirable but. requir-
ed,”’ Sullivan told the judge.

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The defence said ‘To lock
him up with people who can
perfect criminal skill is not
the answer.”’ Brown asked
Judge Layton to consider a
period of ‘incarceration that
will be short enough.

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