NEWS BRIEFS Firearm used in gas Station incident A NORTH Vancouver man faces a charge of pointing a firearm following an incident at a West Vancouver gas station af the end of January. According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, police werc called in after a man, stopped at a gas station, allegedly had a gur pointed at him by the passenger of a nearby car. Police subsequently located the suspect vehicle at Cross Creek Roed in the lower British Properties area at approximately 10:30 p.m. Six occupants, four females and two males, were arrested. Police seized two pellet pistols and 23 pellets. Jonathan Franklin Toews, 18, is set io 2ppear in West Van- couver provincial court on March 18 to face the firearm charge. Meanwhile 2 14-year-old, who had been reported missing from Saanich on Jan. 28, was returned to her home after being found among the passengers in the car. Woman faces three credit card charges A NEW Westminster woman has been charged with theft of a credit card, possession of a stolen credit card and use of a stolen credit card in connection with an alleged theft from a West Van- couver residence. The charges were laid following a police search of a New Westminster home. According to West Vancouver Police, a woman working as a house cleaner in West Vancouver allegedly took $7,222.79 by us- ing stolen credit cards and passing forged cheques. In November the woman allegedly stole cheques from a West Vancouver home and withdrew a total $1,420. A subsequent che- que for $600 was used. The suspect also allegedly made 10 withdrawals totalling $3,402.79, using a stolen ATM card. The police allege that in January a combination credit and ATM card was stolen and used to make five withdrawals totalling $1,800. Charged is 28-year-old Marcellina Arnold. West Van police ‘recover stolen car THE WEST Vancouver Police recovered a stolen car Feb. 4 after arresting three North Vancouver youths at a Capilano Road gas station. The police picked up the youths — a 15-year-old and two 16- year-olds — at approximately 12:30 a.m. According to a police spokesman, a letter on the '77 Cougar’s licence plate had been altered. The car had been stolen in North Vancouver. The driver of the stolen car faces charges of theft over $1,000 and possession of stolen property. Thieves break in to art print shop THIEVES SCOOPED up approximately 300 limited edition prints earlier this month after breaking into an art print shop located in the 800-block of West First Street in North Vancouver. The break-in occurred some time overnight between Feb. 6 and Feb. 7. Police say the prints can be identified as having originated frora the store. Information regarding this theft may be forwarded to North Vancouver RCMP at 985-1371. Harcourt to appear at N. Shore brunch NDP LEADER Mike Harcourt will be attending a March 17 brunch meeting organized by the North Vancouver-Lonsdale New Democrats’ campaign to elect David Schreck. The Saint Patrick’s Day Brunch with the Leprechauns is scheduled to begin at 12 a.m. at Cheers Restaurant, 125 East 2nd St. in North Vancouver. For ticket information call Sally Haugen at 987-9148. Four vie for district seat IT WILL be a four-way race for the fone aldermanic seat up for grabs in the March 9 North Van- couver District byelection. Engineer Bruce Edwards, economist and marketing analyst Joan Gadsby, lawyer Anthony Jasich and paramedic Tim Jones have all officially filed nomination papers for next month’s byelection Tace. While Gadsby and Jones filed their aomination papers earlier, both Edwards and Jasich waited until Thursday’s iZ p.m. deadline before filing. Gadsby, a former incumbent alderman, declined to seek re-elec- tion as alderman in last November’s municipal election so that she could run for the mayor’s chair, a race she lost to district Mayor Murray Dykeman. Jones, who entered municipal politics for the first time last November, failed to win the sixth and final aldermanic seat by about 300 votes. Edwards was also an unsuccessful aldermanic candidate in last November’s municipal elec- tion. The March 9 byelection was called after former incumbent alderman Bill Rodgers resigned his seat when he was appointed a provincial court judge in North -& Vancouver. 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