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LAWYER for a Vancouver woman, in North Van-
Monday to
possessing $3.5 million worth of pure heroin for the pur-
pose of trafficking, said the police bave no evidence link-

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ing the accused to drugs seized by police on Aug. 8.

Judge Jerome Paradis reserved
his decision in the case to Feiuey,
June 4.

Members of the North Van-
couver RCMP and West Van-
couver Police drug squads netted
the narcotic in a Vancouver raid.

Paradis heard the final argu-
ments in the trial of 26-year-old
Marija Kokanovic.

Her co-uecused, Ivan Pelegrin.

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By Anna Marie D*Angelo
News Reporter
36, Tailed to show for court pro-
ceedings.
Pelegrin, described as the
“main active agent’? in the case,
reportedly fled the country after
he was released on $100,000 bail,
in July 1992, the North Van-

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charge of

couver ROAIP drug section was
tipped off that Peleyrin had arriv-
ed in) Vancouver with three
pounds (1.3 kg) of heroin for sale.
The police conducted
surveillance of Pellegrin and
Kokanovie for a number of days.
On Aug. $8 Pelegrin was ar-
rested when an ounce (28° grams)
of herain was found in one of his
shoes.
Police
Barclay
same day
According to a statement by
North Vancouver RCMP Set.
Rick Lawrence, the police atremp-

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ted to emer the West End apart-
ment by tricking the occupant.

A female voice was heard on
the other side of the door.

When the occupant did not
open the door, police used a bat-
tering ram and broke the door
down.

Kokanovic was subsequently
observed in a parking lot near the
apartment building. She was ar-
resid at Robson and Burrard by
a North Vancouver RCMP of:
ficer,

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NORTH VANCOUVER District Fire Department Capt. John Hamilton (far left) checks out a gravel truck that ended up
on its side Monday afternoon on Indian River Drive. 1 took 30 minutes to free the occupant of the truck, who was
reportedly not seriously injured in the mishap. !t took four hours and two tow trucks to right the loaded gravel truck.
According to a North Vancouver District municipal empioyee, the truck was on the road’s shoulder when a portion of

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