The following is the second of a two-part installment cancerning
the dramatic restimony of North Vancouver RCMP Censt. Jordan
Dupuis during the preliminary hearing involving three accused
_ | home invaders. Dupuis was under questioning by Crown prosecutor
_. Don Celle in North Vancouver provincial court last Mav. Dupuis

_ recounted the pursuit of the armed men and arrest of one of the home
_davaders,
The information was banned from publication until the last
home invader was sentenced in March.
En last week's installment, Dupuis talked about trying to pull
tr the home invaders’ ran near Willian and Lyin Valley Road.
The van did not stop, Van occupants started throwing vijects out of
the van including guns as the vehicle travelled along the Trans-
. Canada Highway in the rain. Dupuis rammed the van near
Lonsdale and the highway. The van occupants ran. Dupuis ran after
the driver. The police officer thought he was going to be sot so he fired
‘his gun at the driver. The shot mised. The driver ran off and dau-
bled back. He went into a door of an apartment. Dupuis followed.
A inanin the apartment approached the police officer who “drew
down” his gun at the man. The man turned out to be a residene of
"the apartment. Toe man yelled, “I live here. I live here. There’s kids
in the apartenent He’s in the bathroom. He’s in the bathroom.”

DUPUIS testified: At this point in time the other
bie, Const. Jesmer, who’d been behind me
ring the pursuit, arrived at my location, and a
appeared in the apartment (unit 3 of
isdale Ave.).. He too was ordered to the
and ‘prone down on the ground.
approached the bathroom and yelled for the male.
| When Liouked in the bathroom, first of all, on the left-hand
- sidé was the sink arid tuilezs, and the door opened inward, which
’ the bathtub: would have been in and on the right, so I could
clearly see that the male whe was supposed to have gone into the
bathroom wasn’t on the Ieft-hand side, so hie had to be in the
bathtub. So I started yelling. :

OF

second

hands, and eventually one hand came out, followed by the
ther, and I: reached into the bathroom, which, you know, was-

t that, you know, I had to perhaps go a foot into the bathroom :

'to grab this person’s arm... | |. co.

I brought him out onto the floor, and stepped onto him and
"Over him; and put my knee on his back aud began to place hand-
: cuffs ‘on him. I was covered at this time by. Const. Jesmer.

Once! we ‘ascertained that the two mates that we initially
‘encountéred when we .entered. the. apartment in fact resided

hicre; we allowed them to go to the — there was two children, .

hildren. in the apartment.: We allowed them io go,
yecause they were yelling, crying kind of thing, not really certain
hy all'of.a sudden there was all this commotion in the. apart-
cnt. ; _ ;
came in. aon eo .
Three, thirec and a half minutes had clapsed to the arrest.
I was following the driver with the leather jacket on, a dark-
‘oloured jacket, long ponytail, darker-coloured hair. He seemed
bitolder. 5 vo Sea _ -_
I brought hini to the police car. I chartered and warned him,
aced hira in the back of my police car, and he remained there
“until another ‘unit“came to. transport him to the (North
ancouver RCMP) detachment. = *

zed those as a (court) exhibit; vclieving that they belonged to ©

}¢ person’ whom I'd arrested that had been in the bathtub.
Ewalked to the van, and I took what I believed to be the door
k key and I placed it in the door lock of the van and tried it,
dit worked... - ” rs
Each’ person, each of the suspects was going to be transport-
d separately to the detachment.

tried (the keys) in the’ ignition, and remained at that scene -

nding the arrival of the Burnaby (RCMP). We did not have (a

olice dog) working in North Vancouver that night, so we wait-

: the. Burnaby potice dog ‘and dog -handler (Cpl. Dave

Wood) to‘arrive at the scene.. There had been various sightings
‘of the passenger, front’seat p’

‘At any. rate, we eventually gave up on trying ¢
substantial, ad ei r
‘45 minutes since the apprehension of the first three suspects.

2So'l started yelling for him to show me his hands, show me.

It-had been about three minutes to 10 p.m. when the call:

gérin the area; and so I assist- ..
d with patrols:in the aréa in trying to locate this fourth suspect. .
t ‘ c ) locate him’ A-
int of time had elapsed, you know, half an hour,

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= SUNDAY FOCUS:

So after that myself and the

Burnaby dog handler and Const.

Jesmer went back to Lynn Valley

Road and Willian) and com-

menced a search for any articles

that I had seen thrown from the van.

We started at Lynn Valley and William

just to make sure that we hadn’t missed,
you know, anything that they might have
thrown out of the van when they first hap-
pened to see my police car there.

So what we agreed to de was that the police dog
and police dog handier would conduct the actual search. Once
an item was located on the ground I would then seize that item
and place it in the police car, and I would direct Const. Jesmer
to make notes, just a description, that would enable us to say
that’s the location where this was found, that’s the location
where this was found.

Const. Jesmer wrote specifically what I told him to write.

The very first exhibit [ seized were the keys from the bathtub
at unit 3, 2525 Lonsdale, where I arrested the driver.

The next two items that were located were actually located by
myself, because they were right on the roadway, just basically
right beside cach other, like that, a Tupperware container and a
litle baggie containing some type of white substance:

This was pretty consistent with the object I had seen thrown
from the van that led to the explosion of white powder, so I
assume that perhaps there was more. I couldn’t find any baggies
similar to the baggie that the white substance was in, nor could
I see any white powder on the ground. Of course, it was raining
heavily, so you fnow, probably all dissolved. So that seemed to
make sense to me.

We continued along the highway. for a while, you know,
searching the ditch area to the right with the police dog, and the
next thing we found was a sledge hammer.

When we found this I recognized this as the object that I had
seen thrown from the van 1 indicated was about four feet long
that I believed was a firearm, mostly because of its length.

And it was seized right around where I thought which is fair-
ly close to the sign that indicates Lonsdale Avenue off-ramp is

approaching. Large, huge green sign on the highway, on the

right-hand side. It was in the ditch, north side.
Next item i found was-a sawed-off shotgun in the ditch.
I shouldn't say I found it. The Burnaby police dog found it.
I seized it, placed it in the police vehi-
cle. Yt was foaded at the time, one in
the chamber, three rounds in the tube.
It’s a Remington 870 pump action
shotgun with Wingmaster.
“Tt’s customary when -you find a
weapon, you don’t just pick it up and
throw it in-the car. You have to check
and make sure it’s not loaded, might
not accidentally discharge, so the first
thing I did-was to check and see if it
was loaded. It was loaded, and there
was a round in the chamber. ;
L ejected them (the rounds in the
chamber) onto the pavement.
. At any rate, we searched the north
side of the highway'in a ditch from,
William, searched along the right-hand

. side of Lynn Valley Road, the right-

hand. side of: (the Trans-Canada

’ Highway) or north side of the highway

all the say to Lonsdale, and. so we
arrived back at the scene where the van
was, and where my police vehicle was,”
and so once we were there I waited for

‘our forensic identification person: to

finish taking pictures of the van, and -

then once he was done with the van I seized various articles that
were kind of strewn about on the pavement, you know, dropped
by the people as they cxited the vehicle when they first exited.

I should mention that after i’d arrested the driver and placed
him in my police vehicle I had looked into the van, because the
sliding door was open. As I looked in I could see that there was
another shotgun, a long shotgun, silver-coloured, against the
back of the vehicle; lying against the back door that would open

‘up. As well, [ could see the barrel “of something else that [> -

assumed was probably a shotgun. I couldn’t see it cause there

"yellow letters.

Far as I
recall, the
first thing I seized, I
started at the . driver's
side front door of the vehicle.
and worked my way clockwise,
clockwise around the vehicle. A Nokia -
cell phone was on at the time. It was on at the
time, was lying on the ground, like I said, like one missed call or _
something like that on the screen. And without my notes to.
refer to there that Const. Jesmer made for me, I don’t know the
specific, but it’s either the hat or this jacket was seized next,
understanding that everything, the next few that I’m giving you
were all seized from the immediate area right beside the van. A
jacket, police raid jacket, says “Police” in large letters on the ©
back of it. . . :
It’s entirely characteristic to the only difference between that.-:
and the one (blue police raid jacket) I have in my locker at the. ©
detachment is that nine says REMP/GRC on it and that one’ -
says, “Police” in big letters, so very, very legitimate. cane
Blue and yellow are the standard kind of colours that we use...
(in) Vancouver. _ ; . Lone
(There was a) baseball cap that had “Police” written on it in a
A jacket that was lying on the pavement right beside the van,”
the right-hand side of the van on the pavement. eae
An EM transceiver.scanner (police radio scanner) was lying *
on the pavement. Was set on 145 poinz something. I forget. -
Somebody, ! think Const. Jesmer made a note as to the specific
frequency it was seton. oe nae
And then the last thing, when I'd been bending down I
observed, I had observed something underneath the van, just |:

slightly underneath it right below the sliding rear right door, the |:

big van door which was open, and it turned out to be a glove, a=:
black glove. . a

So that concluded my seizing articles in the immediate. area
of the suspect vehicle. Now, while I had been doing this th
Burnaby dog handler had gone back. _ Ce

We had initially searched the highway going in a westerly. .
direction. He searched it going in an easterly direction because’.
the wind was blowing in his face, and that makes it easier for the.”
dog to find articles, so] was at the scene just kind of conclud
ing seizing all the articles there, when our: police’ dispatcher’
informed me thar the Burnaby dog handler had found another
object and requésted my attendance to seize it, because we’
wanted to ensure that there was some continuity in. who. was
doing what, so I seized all exhibits that were thrown out’ and
that were in the area of the van. aa :

‘work, you know, as best as I could at the time, and I Seized th

The weapon was set on a fully automatic at the time.”
’ All that would have been‘ required’ to;shoot that we:
would have been ro_work the action, click, and then it’s:r
to go, so just to chamber a round and then ‘once you begin to
fire, the action works by itself, and so long as you hold th

ger it keeps shooting. «. .

. It would shoor all those (an estimated 30-round magazine)
in a couple of seconds. tt
‘We decided to use one o!

was articles of clothing on top of it. I didn’t go into the van, >:

‘though. We just left the van. ote win :
I saw sone body armour.in the van: Body armour, J mean ©

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