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A LARGE group of TV cameramen and newspaper photographers besieged the North Vancouver RCMP detachment Monday afternoon to catch a glimpse of David
Alexander Snow as he was hustled to the North Vancouver provincial court. Snow faces 30 charges including kidnapping, attempted murder and sexual assault. He
was arrested by police early Sunday morning near the Bridge House Restaurant in North Vancouver after managing to escape police.

One-man crime spree culminates in
30 charges against Ontario ‘loner’

North Vancouver provincial court

A 37-YEAR-old Ontario

man arrested carly Sunday in

North Vancouver following an intensive police search fora
man who abducted a North Vancoaver video stere clerk
Saturday appeared in North Vancouver provincial court
Tuesday morning to face 30 criminal charges.

David Alexander
Orangeville, Ontario, is charged
with five counts of robbery, three
counts of kidnapping, five counts
of unlawful confinement, one
count of sexual assault, three
counts of sexual assault while cur-
tying a weapon, one count of
sexual assault) causing bodily
harm, five counts of using a
firearm during the commission of
an offence, wo counts of over-
coming resistance by choking to
commit an offence, one count of

Snow, 37, of

By Michael Becker

News Reporter

alempted aurder and four counts
of possession. of an unregistered
weapon,

The charges are based on crim-
inal information iid by the North
Vancouver ROMP and Vancouver
City Police.

A court
show -cause

imposed ata
Tuesday by

order
hearing

oe

dudge Jerome Paradis bans the
publication of the names of the
five victims involved in the case.

Snow is scheduled to appear
again in North Vancouver provin-
cial court on Thursday morning,

Four of the 30 charges faced by
Snow stem from a June 29 ine
dent in which a woniin wis
bound, robbed and sexually
assaulted af a boutique located on
West Broadway in Vancouver.

On July 3 a 21-year-old woman
was abducted) from oan East
Hastings Street camera store, Ac-
cording 10 police, the armed
suspeet walked the victim: across
the Second Narrows Bridge.

For a week the suspect allegedly
held the woman captive in a

446(The women have) gone through
a tremendous ordeal, but physically
they are fine. 99

wooded area beside the Upper
Levels Highway, right across from
the Westview shopping mall. The
makeshift campsite was hidden
with branches. Plastic bags were
used to. provide shelter. The
woman was gagged and bound
with clothing, wire and bits of
rope.

On
Suspect

the
store

Saturday morning
entered a video
located at) Westview mall. Said
North Vancouver ROMP Staff
Sergeant Ron Babcock, “He went
in, abducted a female employee

— RCMP Sgt. Babcock

and bound the owner of the store
aod left him there, He took the
woman to a bush area by the
video store, He went back to his
camp (where his other captive
was), returned to where (the 19-
year-old) video clerk = wis) und
placed her in her car.

“From there he went to pick up
(the 2}-year-old), put her in’ the
car and then forced (the video
store clerk) to drive her car over
to Indian River Road by Mount
Seymour.

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