August 26, 1994

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Cops score drug cache
in North Van hotel room

NORTH VANCOUVER

RCMP arrested a man
Tuesday after a motel
employee reported finding
drugs in his room.

By Bruce Methven

Contributing Writer

On Monday, David Richard
Celmaster, 36, checked into the
Holiday Inn Express Cormerly The
Maples Motel) on Capilana Road in
North Vancouver, according to
North Van RCMP.

Housekeeping staff entered his
room on Tuesday afternoon under
the assumption that Celmuster had
checked out. Inside the room. the
housekeeper noticed bags of what
appeared to be drugs its well as a set
of scales.

The drugs and other parapherna-
lia were removed aud motel staff

immediately notified police.

In the meantime, Celmaster had
returned to the motel to discover the
contents of his room had been
removed.

While he was in the lobby asking
about the items an RCMP officer
arrived at the motel. Police contis-
cated 153 grams of cocaine. 16
grams of marijuana and $1,500.

Before being taken into custody
Celmaster was free pending an
appeal of a recent drug sentence. He
is being held in custody in North
Vancouver on drug possession and
trafficking charges.

Celmaster has five prior drug
convictions and a criminal record
dating back to 1979. when he
received one year’s probation for
possession of a narcotic.

A trafficking conviction in 1981
netted him a $450 fine. In three dif-

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NORTH VANCOUVER'S Charmaine Crooks (centre) keeps ahead of Australia’s Lisa
Lightfoot (left) and Northern Ireland's Joanna Latimer during the women’s 800m heat on
Wednesday at Victoria's Centennial Stadium. Crooks won the heat and is scheduled to
NEWS photo Terry Peters compete in the 800m fina! today at 2:35 p.m.

CONST. DAVE Whalen displays drugs worth $16,000 that were
seizured by North Vancouver RCMP.

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