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SEVEN men were
charged last week in
connection with
allegedly selling 30,000
illegal cable TV
decoders in the Greater
Vancouver area.

_ Cpl Gary Stuart, of the
Vancouver RCMP
Commercial Crime section,

said the decoders ¥ ere sold on
the North Shore, bur the
exact number was nor avail
able. During the course of the
21-month investigation,
police seized $250,000 casn
in West Vancouver.

Stuart said the  investiga-
don, called Project Evesee,
focused on the setiers of the
decoders rather than those
who purchased.

Said the cerporal, “The
use of these decoders is He-
gal. Te is aot beyond the
ream of possibilities te go
after individual consumers.”

Police aiege that the sus-
pects bonght legitimate chan
nel converters fram eastern
Canada distributors. They
then installed compurer chips
which bypassed the scram-
bling for pay-per-view and

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ice charge 7 for decoders

other expensive cable chan-
nels.

thegai decoders are usually
sold be word af mouth snd
can cost appreximareiy S300
cach on the North Stare.

Rogers Cable spokesman
Sandra Rebehinsky. trom the
Burnaby office, said that a aia:
sie pay-per-view event can
cost a cable sudscriber $20. A
Super Chane! movie may run
$4 or $8, Potice estimate the
30,000 illegal decoders were
part of a multi-miltion dollar
enterprise.

‘The charged men include
brothers, James E. Millar and
Robert Christopher Millar,
both of Richmond and Jefirey
Stewart Millar, of Sidney. Also
charged are Thomas John
Milliken, of Mission, Ronald
Jacob Sander, of Delta and
Richmond residents
Christopher Andreas Fischer
and Ryan Kozicki . They are
charged with conspiracy to
commit theft and distribute
illegal cable television
decoders. The Millar brothers
are also charged with conspir-
acy ta make the decoders.

— Anna Marie D'Angelo

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NV thief strikes
with pepper spray

A 7-Eleven clerk was
pepper sprayed by a
robber wearing a ski
mask on Thursday in
Upper Lonsdale.

North Vancouver RCMP
Const. Tom Seaman said the
robber entered the store
located at 29th Street and
Lonsdale Avenue at 3 a.m.

The robber pepper sprayed
the male clerk and then
ordered him to the ground.

The thief took cigarettes
and cash.

Police say the clerk was
able to “make a run for it”
while the robber’s back was
turned, .

The clerk called police
from a nearby gas station.

Anyone with information,
call North Vancouver RCMP
Const. Heidi Hoffman at
985-1311. Callers are asked
to refer to the case file num-
ber: 98-18183.

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