2~ Wednesday, March 26, 1997 - North Shore News

Extradition of escaped man dropped

By Michael Becker

News Editor

THE extradition process
to return a man who
escaped lawful custody
to West Vancouver has
been withdrawn.

West Vancouver Police had
sought the return of Eric Valois

to face a number oF outstand-
ing charges. According to West
Van Police spokesman Const.
Paul Skelton, duc to an Li -vear
time fag there is insufficient esi-
dence to support a hkelihood
of conviction.

Eleven vears ago Eric Valois
escaped custody while facing
charges in West Vancouver
Provincial court.

He's back behind bars in
England.

The police had applied to
have Valois, 34, extradited and
returned to the North Shore to
answer charges including two
counts of narcotics possession,
possession of explosives, pos-
session of 2 restncted weapon,
possession of stolen property
and escape from lawful custedy.

Crown counsel has entered 2
stay of proceedings on al!
charges except the escape frum
iawful custody charge.

Valois jumped out of the
prisoner's holding area inside a
West Vancouver courtroom on
Jan. 30, 1996. The speedy
barefooted man escaped the
grasp of a deputy sheriff and
bulted to freedom through 2

nearby emergency exit door.
Police searched for Valois
but came up empry-handed.
The West Vancouver
charges stem from the police
search of 2 Dundarave home on
Jan. 26, 1986. Acting on an
informant’s tip, the police
recovered a quantity of Cilgel
dynamite, Powermex 500
dynamite, CXA_ blasting caps

and one .38 calibre gun.

According toe Skelton, the
gun was found to be stolen
during a bank robbery in
Montreal on Sept. 28, 1984.
The explosives were traced © a
theft occurring in Val-d°Or,
Quebec, in 1985. Valois was
arrested in December in
England in connection with
drug charges.

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